Color lithograph cm 38 x 51; sheet cm 50x69. Circulation and signature at bottom in pencil. Edition 70 + XXX copies. Our exh. no. 11/ 70. Published in Man Ray. Graphic Work. Anselmino, 1973, no. 77. Fine copy. Slight marginal foxing. Man Ray, (Emanuel Radnitzky; Philadelphia, 1890 - Paris, 1976), was a painter, photographer and film director. He is considered a great multifaceted figure, a leading figure in the artistic season of the first half of the 20th century, representative of the American Dada and Surrealist movements. Moving from New York to Paris, Man Ray was among the first to theorize a new language of photography and film, positing them as tools of artistic making. From 1915 he employed photography to reproduce his painting or used it as a starting point. He made numerous abstract collages, formed strange assemblages, and created “dadà” objects in the 1920s. Man Ray also invents (1921) a photographic process that succeeds in making impressions of an object without a camera and discovers solarization, which allows the accentuation of contours through black lines. In 1924 he approached the Surrealists and participated in the group's different exhibitions. Publishes (in 1937 with André Breton), the manifesto “La photographie n'est pas l'art“ (”Photography is not art"). He left France (1940) for eleven long years at the beginning of the warto return to Paris in 1951. He came to abstraction in the late 1950s, never abandoning the construction of his incongruous assemblages. He died in Paris in 1976.