The painting Flying Dutchman originates from an early photograph Man Ray made of sheets on a clothesline in New York called Moving Sculpture. The painting’s title suggests that the image reminded him of ship sails and, more specifically, of Richard Wagner’s celebrated tragic opera The Flying Dutchman (1843), based on the legend of a ghost ship doomed to journey aimlessly forever, its sails in tatters.
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the artist (from 1920; his gift to Siegler); his sister, Elsie Siegler (until d. 1957); her daughter, Naomi Savage (until d. 2005); her daughter, Laurie Savage; Elise Brown, Naples, Fla. (until 2017; her gift to MMA)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," November 21, 1996–February 23, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 135; lent by a private collection).
New York. Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, Ltd. "Man Ray in America: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Photographs from the New York/Ridgefield (1912–21) and Hollywood (1940–50) Years," October 27, 2001–January 5, 2002, unnumbered cat. (pl. 28).
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. "Dada," October 5, 2005–January 9, 2006, no. 425 (lent by Francis M.Naumann Fine Art, New York).
London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig.111; lent by a private collection, courtesy Francis M. Nauman Fine Art, New York).
New York. Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. "Man Ray: Continued and Noticed," September 23–November 18, 2016, unnumbered cat. (pl. 28).
Brigitte Hermann and Jean-Hubert Martin inMan Ray: Photographe. Exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1981, p. 131.
Dawn Ades inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 91–92, 233, fig. 111 (color).
Francis M. Naumann. Man Ray: Continued and Noticed. Exh. cat., Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. New York, 2016, pp. 20–22, colorpl. 28.
Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris)
1948
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