Le baiser de Man Ray ca. 1930

Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller et une personne non identifiée, vers 1930 | src Centre Pompidou
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller et une personne non identifiée, vers 1930 [Detail]
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller et une personne non identifiée, vers 1930 | src Centre Pompidou
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Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller et une personne non identifiée, vers 1930 | src Centre Pompidou
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Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1930. Annotated ‘Miller Deldourne’ on verso | src Bruce Silverstein gallery (exhibition Le Baiser de Man Ray 2024)
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Lee Miller and friend, Paris, ca. 1930
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Le Baiser (The Kiss), ca. 1930 | src mutualart
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ ‘Le Baiser’. Lee Miller and Belbourne (sic), 1930 | src the red list

Egg and Shell by Man Ray

Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ The egg and the shell (L’œuf et le coquillage), 1931 | src NGV ~ National Gallery of Victoria
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ Sans titre, ca. 1930. Solarized gelatin silver print, annotated ‘462’ in pencil (verso). Man Ray et les Surréalistes | src Christie’s auction 19833 03/2021
Man Ray (1890-1976) ~ The egg and the shell, 1931

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

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.