Category: surrealism, surreal, dadaism, dada

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.

Adam et Eve; tableau vivant

Man Ray :: Ciné-Sketch; Adam and Eve (Marcel Duchamp and Bronia Perlmutter), 1924. Gelatin silver print, on carte postale, printed in the 1930s. | src Christie’s & Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philamuseum)

In 1924 Francis Picabia asked Bronia to participate in a production, Ciné Sketch, that he and René Clair were putting on after the Relache 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.

Ciné Sketch (1924) was a theatrical diversion conceived by Francis Picabia and René Clair, in which Marcel Duchamp and the Jewish-Polish model Bronia Perlmutter mime the figures of Adam and Eve in a tableau vivant of the Temptation after a painting by Cranach. Ciné-Sketch was performed only once, at the conclusion of Relache (by Ballets Suédois) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on New Year’s Eve 1924.

Remedios Varo and the mask

Kati Horna (1912-2000) ~ Remedios Varo with a mask by Leonora Carrington, Mexico, 1957 | src NYBooks
Kati Horna ~ Portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum
Kati Horna ~ Remedios Varo y la máscara, 1956. Varo, posing with a mask made by Leonora Carrington | src Morton Subastas
Kati Horna ~ Surreal portrait of Remedios Varo [wearing a mask by Leonora Carrington], 1957 | src Princeton University Art Museum

Lee Miller par Man Ray ca 1929

Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller, ca. 1930. From the exhibition ‘Views of the Spirit’, 08/2014 at Mondo Galeria Madrid | src Tarq
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller, le visage peint, ca. 1929 (alamy) | src The Tatler (2022)

Ode to Necrophilia, 1962

Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from the series Oda a la necrofilia, Ciudad de México, 1962. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from the series Oda a la necrofilia, Ciudad de México, 1962. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled (from the series ‘Ode to Necrophilia’), Mexico, 1962. Published in S.nob magazine, issue number 1, 1962

Oda a la necrofilia, 1962

Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), series Oda a la necrofilia, Ciudad de México, 1962. | src Michael Hoppen Gallery via l’œil de la photographie
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from ‘Ode to Nechrophilia’ series, 1962. © Ana María Norah Horna y Fernández
Kati Horna :: Untitled (Leonora Carrington), from ‘Ode to Nechrophilia’ series, 1962. Museo Amparo Collection.
Kati Horna :: Leonora (Ode to Nechrophilia series) signed ‘Kati Horna’ (on the verso) gelatin silver print. Mexico City, circa 1962. | src Christie’s This image was published in S.nob magazine, issue number 1, 1962.