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Man Ray

Portrait of Man Ray

Man Ray was a U.S. Photographer born on August 27, 1890. Ray contributed to the Dadaist and Surrealist movements and died on November 18, 1976. Get notified when Man Ray's biography is complete:

Kiki de Montparnasse

1920

The Riddle of Isidore Ducasse

1920

Gift

1921

Portrait Of Rose Sélavy

1921

The Kiss

1922

Ingres's Violin

1924

Rayograph - 1925

1925

Black and White

1926

Decanter

1926

Dragonfly

1926

Emak Bakia

1926

Woman with Long Hair

1929

Portrait of André Breton

1930

Prayer

1930

Atelier Composition

1933

Observatory Time - The Lovers

1932-1934

Self Portrait with the Lamp

1934

Space Writing (Self Portrait)

1935

Observatory Time - The Lovers (Photograph)

1936

Untitled - 1936

1936

I’d like to find and lose the philosopher’s stone. Make love and never lose control. Remove a great number of living beings with impunity. Afterward resuscitate a very small number of the dead.

Convulsionnaires

1937

Pisces

1938

Aurelien

1944

Shakespearean Equation - Twelfth Night

1948

Indestructible Object

1923-1958
Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

Giving art a cheerful middle finger

1887-1968
Portrait of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

A living collage

1874-1927
Portrait of Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch

Dissecting the 'new woman' through collage

1889-1978
Portrait of Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Painting as experience

1915-1991
Portrait of Ülo Ilmar Sooster

Ülo Ilmar Sooster

A bad time to be an artist in the Baltics

1924-1970
Portrait of Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning

Exploring the strange world of dreams

1910-2012
18012000
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
We shall remake the world
Liubov Popova
Genius dead at 28
Egon Schiele
What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
Giorgio Morandi
Painting symbols of a new world
El Lissitzky

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