Inscription: Signed and dated (lower center): Man Ray 1921; signed and inscribed (verso): Premier objet – fait à mon arrivé à Paris 1921 / Man Ray
the artist (from 1921; to Rathke); Dr. Ewald Rathke, Germany (by 1958–1996; sold in 1996 to Kelman); Mark Kelman, New York (1996–97; sold in 1997 through Vivian Horan to Jedermann); Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (1997–2010; sold in 2010 through Elizabeth Markevitch, Geneva to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2010)
Paris. Librairie Six. "Exposition dada Man Ray," December 3–31, 1921, no. 35 (as "Transatlantique").
Düsseldorf. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. "Dada: Dokumente einer Bewegung," September 5–October 19, 1958, no. 166 (as "Transatlantique").
Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. "Dada: Dokumente einer Bewegung," December 23, 1958–February 2, 1959, no. 138 (as "transatlantique").
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. "Dada," October 5, 2005–January 9, 2006, no. 430 (lent by a private collection).
London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 187; lent by a private collection).
Barcelona. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," June 26–October 12, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 187; lent by a private collection).
New York. Jewish Museum. "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," November 15, 2009–March 14, 2010, unnumbered cat. (fig. 66; as "Trans atlantique," lent by a private collection, New York).
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Man Ray / Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism," July 14–October 14, 2012, not in catalogue.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 56, 157–58, 203, 233, 367, fig. 264.
Jean-Hubert Martin. Man Ray: Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, p. 140, under no. 14, ill. p. 145, calls it "Trans-Atlantique".
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray, Carte Varie e Variabili. Exh. cat., Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, 1983, p. 21.
Merry Foresta inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, p. 25.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 137–38, fig. 109.
Neil Baldwin. Man Ray: American Artist. New York, 1988, p. 82, calls it "Transatlantique".
William A. Camfield. Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. Munich, 1993, pp. 115, 345 n. 100, ill., calls it "Transatlantique".
Elizabeth Garrity Ellis in Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Americans in Paris (1921–1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 1996, ill. p. 54.
Yve-Alain Bois. "Entropy: Zone." Formless: A User's Guide. New York, 1997, p. 226.
Wanda M. Corn. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915–1935. Berkeley, 1999, pp. 81, 418, fig .66.
Wendy Grossman. "Man Ray's Endgame and Other Modernist Gambits." The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture. Ed. Johnnie Gratton and Michael Sheringham. New York, 2005, p. 35.
Katie Croll-Knight inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 191.
Larry List inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 140, 233, fig. 187 (color).
Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 61, fig. 66 (color).
George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 136.
Kim Knowles. "From Studio to Street: The Urban Photography of Man Ray." History of Photography 34 (February 2010), p. 31.
Patty Wageman inBrancusi, Rosso, Man Ray: Framing Sculpture. Ed. Peter van der Coelen and Francesco Stocchi. Exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam, 2014, p. 216, fig. 1 (color).
James Housefield. Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp. Hanover, N.H., 2016, pp. 9, 124–29, 239 nn. 15–16, colorpl. 14, fig. 4.2, calls it "Trans atlantique".
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. 163, 303, 318 n. 22, colorpl. 112.
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. 292.
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