Man Ray
Man Ray
Signed Print
David Hockney
£2,900-£4,300
$6,000-$8,500 Value Indicator
$5,000-$8,000 Value Indicator
¥27,000-¥40,000 Value Indicator
€3,500-€5,000 Value Indicator
$28,000-$40,000 Value Indicator
¥570,000-¥850,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 100
Year: 1974
Size: H 65cm x W 50cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Menzies Art Brands, Sydney | Australia | |||
| January 2024 | Ader | France | |||
| November 2023 | Sotheby's Online | United Kingdom | |||
| October 2023 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| October 2023 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| May 2023 | Skinner, Marlborough | United States | |||
| October 2022 | Phillips New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
This is a signed colour lithograph print by British artist David Hockney was released in an edition of 100 in 1974. It is a tribute to American visual artist Man Ray, a key proponent of the Dada and Surrealist movements. It depicts Ray sitting in a chair, accompanied by his signature walking stick.
The signed colour lithographic print Man Ray was released in 1974 and depicts American visual artist Man Ray, one of the most prominent proponents of the 21st-century Surrealist and Dadaist movements, two years before his death. In 1973, Hockney had left England to live in Paris’s 6th arrondissement. Commenting on his arrival in the French capital, Hockney remarked, ‘When I left London to come and live and work in Paris, I hadn’t the least idea of what I was going to paint […] Paris has been painted by so many people.’ Confronted with an overworked subject, Hockney opted to depict the people who lived there and who had contributed to its thriving arts scene. As such, Hockney decided to depict Ray, an American who had spent much of his life in the city. Clutching his signature walking stick, rendered in yellow, Ray is accompanied by objects which reference his long and hugely successful career; to his right, a chequerboard lays on a table which has only two legs in a reference to his gravity-defying paintings, and the 1927 work Chess Set. To the right of his head, a small geometric work sits in an easel, in a pointed allusion to his work’s disruption of traditional unifocal perspective.
