Man Ray
MAN RAY
(American, 1890 – 1976)
Lampshade, 1964
Spiral hanging object fashioned of spray-painted aluminum (after the original version from 1919, later lost)
Height: 28 in. (71.12 cm) extended (hanging)
Artist Proof: separate from an edition of 100
© Man Ray Trust, © Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY and © ADAGP, Paris
Man Ray was born in Philadelphia and spent the first 30 years of his life in New York. He spent most of the succeeding years in Paris, except for the 1940’s when he lived in Los Angeles.
Man Ray divided his creative time between painting, photography and the rendering of very unique objects, of which an early example was “Lampshade”, first devised in New York in 1919.
He was an original member of the Dada Group and continued as a Surrealist from its inception in 1924. His greatest allegiance, however, was always to his greatest love, Dada, and whenever he was interviewed concerning his biographical details, he always described himself as a Dadaist before any other identifications.