Invention

Modern Art

1916

Man Ray
American, 1890–1976

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky)
Title: Invention
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1916
Medium: Oil on composition board
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, l.r.: "Man Ray 1916"
Dimensions: 62.2 × 47 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman in memory of her mother, Ida Kallis
Reference Number: 1980.282
Copyright: © 2018 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

“Man Ray,” La Révolution Surréaliste: la revue la plus scandaleuse du monde, no. 11.
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Man Ray, Paintres Nouveaux 36 (Paris, 1924), p. 25 (ill.).
Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray (New York, 1977), p. 37, fig. 33.
Francis Naumann, “Man Ray and America: The New York and Ridgefield years: 1907-1921,” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, New York, 1988 (UMI), pp. 519-20, 584-86.

New York, The Daniel Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Man Ray, December 1916-16 January 1917, no. 8 or 9.
New York, The Daniel Gallery, Man Ray, November 17-December 1, 1919, no. 13.
Paris, Librairie Six, Exposition Dada Man Ray, December 3-31, 1921, no. 3.
Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 29, 1994; Yokahama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.

Muriel Kallis Newman, Chicago, c. 1942; given by her to the Art Institute, 1980.

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