Coat Stand, 1920 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
4 3/4h x 3w inches

Estimate: €6,000 - 8,000

Subject to further research

Madrid, Paris & Berlin, 2007-10, p. 64
Tokyo, 2010, no. 30

New York Dada, ed. Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, no. 1 (April 1921)
Oggetti d'affezione, 1970, no. 11
Penrose, 1975, p. 74
Schwarz, 1977, ill. p. 151
Objets de mon affection, 1983, ill. p. 33
Anvers, 1994, ill. fig. 2
Centre Pompidou, 1996, ill. p. 305
Vienne, 1996-97, ill. fig. 13
Paris, 1998, ill. p. 210

This print is in good general condition; with a glossy surface. With a superficial circular mark of approximately 1.5 cm in the upper right quadrant, and lightly worn edges with some minimal loss of gelatin. With a slightly worn upper left hand corner and small amount of gelatin loss, and superficial scratches and handling marks only visible in raking light.
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Created in 1920, Man Ray’s Coat Stand is among his most important Dada works. Featuring a hybrid creation that is half-human, half-machine, like many Dada works, it is a morbid critique of the atrocities of the Great War. When the photograph was first published in 1921, under the title “Dadaphoto” in the single issue of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray’s magazine New York Dada, a postage stamp preserved the model’s modesty. A small area of emulsion come off when the stamp was removed, visible in almost every known print of Coat Stand including the present example. Arturo Schwarz described the work as follows: “Man Ray positioned a model wearing only a black stocking on her right leg behind a flat articulated coat stand. The body of Coat Stand was thus provided by Man Ray … the contrast between the nude and the robot-like coat-stand produced a startling effect. Man Ray then photographed this first example of Body Art combined with a Readymade.” (Schwarz, 1977, p. 160)