Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the artist in 1973)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 4th February 2016, lot 380)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exposition Surréaliste (exhibition catalogue), Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris, 1933, illustration of another example n.p.
Man Ray: Objects of my Affection (exhibition catalogue), Julien Levy Gallery, New York, 1945, illustration of another example n.p.
Jean-Hubert Martin (ed.), Man Ray, Objets de mon affection, Paris, 1983, no. 42, illustration of another example p. 52
Merry Foresta et al., Perpetual motif, The Art of Man Ray (exhibition catalogue), National Museum of American Art, Washington, 1988, illustration of another example p. 253
Andrew Strauss, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan, Wendy Grossman, Edouard Sebline (eds.), Man Ray, Human Equations, A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare (exhibition catalogue), The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. & The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2015, n.n., illustrated in colour of another example p. 209

There is some significant wear to the steel cylinder (where the silver polyhedron has rubbed against it), some light surface dirt and scuffs to the rubber tubing, some handling marks and minor scratches to the silver, and some stable, thin splits to one of the sides of the wooden base, most of which is consistent with age and handling. This work is in overall good condition.
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Andrew Strauss and Timothy Baum of the Man Ray Expertise Committee have confirmed the authenticity of this work and that it will be included in the Catalogue of Paintings of Man Ray, currently in preparation.