[Nude]
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.A masterpiece of modern photography, this nude study explicitly evokes Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the early nineteenth-century French tradition of the odalisque. Until recently, the model was believed to be Kiki de Montparnasse, the cabaret singer and artist’s model. The subject’s identity now remains a tantalizing question. Lounging on a daybed, the anonymous figure wears a black lace bodysuit and radiates pleasure like a quiescent python.
Artwork Details
- Title: [Nude]
- Artist: Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1930
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 6 1/4 × 8 11/16 in. (15.8 × 22 cm)
Framed: 17 1/2 × 22 in. (44.5 × 55.9 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
- Rights and Reproduction: © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris
- Curatorial Department: Photographs