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Man Ray :: Meret Oppenheim’s arm in Marcoussis’s studio, 1933. From a suite of photographs entitled Érotique-voilée (Veiled Eroticism), Man Ray’s photograph shows his then assistant, fellow-Surrealist Meret Oppenheim, in the print studio of Louis Marcoussis. Oppenheim’s left forearm is stretched out and smeared with the black ink of an etching press, behind a large copper printing-press wheel.

/ source: National Gallery of Australia

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Érotique Voilée, 1933

Man Ray :: Érotique Voilée (Veiled Eroticism), 1933, gelatin silver print. Inscribed ‘Meret Oppenheim dans l’atelier de Marcoussis, 15 rue Hégesippe-Moreau’ in ink (on the verso). | src Christie’s

Bronia Perlmutter by Man Ray

Man Ray :: Untitled. Brogna Perlmutter (Bronia Perlmutter), Paris, 1924 | src NGA [National Gallery of Australia]

On December 1924 Francis Picabia asked Bronia to participate in a production, Ciné Sketch, that he and René Clair were putting on after the ballet on New Year’s Eve. Bronia agreed, and she and Marcel Duchamp appeared nude—Duchamp did have a strategically placed fig leaf—in a living tabloid of Lucas Cranach’s Adam and Eve, which Man Ray photographed. This photograph most probably belongs to that series.

Aktstudie von Rudolf Koppitz

Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Aktstudie, Weissensee, Kärnten, Österreich, um 1928 | src Ostlicht Auktionen
Rudolf Koppitz (1884-1936) ~ Nude study, Weissensee, Carinthia, Austria, ca. 1928 | src Swann galleries