the artist (from 1918; to Breton); Andre Breton, Paris (until d. 1966); by descent to his daughter, Aube Elléouët, Paris (from 1966); [Galerie 1900-2000, Paris]; [Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2003; sold in 2003 to Pritzker]; John A. Pritzker (from 2003)
Venice. Isola di San Giorgio, sala Carnelutti. "La Biennale di Venezia: Man Ray, testimonianza attraverso la fotografia," July 18–October 10, 1976, not in catalogue.
Tokyo Station Gallery. "Man Ray: Retrospective photographique, 1917–75," September 14–October 20, 1996, no. 6-2-1 (as "Woman or Shadow," 1918).
London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 22; dated 1917–18, lent by a private collection, San Francisco).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today," August 1–November 1, 2010, unnumbered cat. (pl. 173; dated 1918, lent by a private collection, San Francisco).
Kunsthaus Zürich. "FotoSkulptur. Die Fotografie der Skulptur 1839 bis heute," February 25–May 15, 2011, unnumbered cat.
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," February 7–May 10, 2015, unnumbered cat. (fig. 87; dated 1918, lent by Lisa and John Pritzker).
Copenhagen. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," June 11–September 20, 2015, unnumbered cat.
Jerusalem. Israel Museum. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," October 20, 2015–January 23, 2016, unnumbered cat.
Little Review 11 (Spring 1925), ill. between pp. 40–41, as "Construction".
Man Ray. Oggetti d'Affezione. Turin, 1970, no. 5, ill. p. 19 (unknown edition), calls it "Shadows" and dates it 1919.
Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, p. 179, no. 3, ill. and ill. p. 19, calls it "Shadows" and dates it 1918.
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. 132, no. 221, ill. p. 176 (Studio Marconi, Milan edition, alternate orientation), date it 1919.
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. 7, calls it "Intégration des ombres".
Jean-Hubert Martin. Man Ray: Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, p. 140, no. 13, ill. p. 29 (unknown edition, alternate orientation), calls it "Shadows/Reflexions" and dates it 1919.
Denis Hollier. "Précipités surréalistes (A l'ombre du préfixe sur)." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne no. 38 (Winter 1991), p. 44, ill. p. 46 (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris edition), dates it 1919.
Gilbert Perlein. Man Ray: Retrospective 1912–1976. Exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain. Nice, 1997, ill. p. 75 (Giorgio Marconi edition).
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, p. 31, ill. p. 13 (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris edition), dates it 1919.
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2001, pp. 14, 78, 124, ill. p. 9 (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris edition), dates it 1919 [reprints Ref. l'Ecotais 2000].
Dawn Ades inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 95.
Jennifer Mundy inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 25, 233, fig. 22 (color).
George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 146.
Roxana Marcoci in Roxana Marcoci. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2010, p. 167, colorpl. 173.
Wendy A. Grossman inMan Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare. Ed. Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Ostfildern, 2015, pp. 118, 226, fig. 87 (color).
Stephanie D'Alessandro in Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, pp. 70, 72, 130.
Micayla Bransfield in Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, p. 294.
Stephen C. Pinson in Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, pp. 88, 300, colorpl. 51.
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