Inscription: Inscribed and dated (verso, top center): "Moving Sculpture" 1920 .
the artist (1920–59; in 1959 to Schwarz); Vera and Arturo Schwarz, Milan (1959–at least 1986); Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (by 1996–2005; sold in 2005 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2005)
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism," September 14–November 17, 1985, unnumbered cat. (fig. 111; lent by Vera and Arturo Schwarz, Milan).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism," December 13, 1985–February 16, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. "L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism," April 15–June 16, 1986, unnumbered cat.
London. Hayward Gallery. "L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism," July 10–October 5, 1986, unnumbered cat.
London. Serpentine Gallery. "Man Ray," January 8–March 12, 1995, unnumbered cat. (lent by a private collection, USA) [possibly this work].
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 Jedermann Collection, N.A.).
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. "Dada," October 5, 2005–January 9, 2006, no. 1108 (lent by the Bluff Collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Dada," February 19–May 14, 2006, not in catalogue.
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Dada," June 18–September 11, 2006, not in catalogue.
London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 110; lent by the Bluff Collection LP).
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. "La Subversion des Images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film," September 23, 2009–January 11, 2010, unnumbered cat. (p. 326; as "Sculpture mouvante ou La France," lent by The Bluff collection LP).
Fotomuseum Winterthur. "Subversion der Bilder–Surrealismus, Fotografie und Film," February 27–May 23, 2010, unnumbered cat.
La Révolution Surréaliste 2, no. 6 (March 1926), ill. front cover, as "La France".
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 233, 371, fig. 384.
Erika Billeter. Malerei und Photographie im Dialog: von 1840 bis heute. Bern, 1977, p. 402, fig. 292.
Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, p. 182, no. 13, ill. and ill. p. 29 (not this edition).
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, no. 174, ill. p. 147 (not this edition).
Edouard Jaguer. Les Mystères de la Chambre Noire: le surréalisme et la photographie. Paris, 1982, pp. 23–24, ill.
Jane Livingston in Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston. L’Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1985, p. 123, fig. 111.
Dawn Ades in Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston. L’Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1985, p. 159.
Neil Baldwin. Man Ray: American Artist. New York, 1988, p. 70.
Rosalind Krauss in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, pp. 249, 294, ill. p. 135 (image reversed).
Katherine Ware. "'Chemist of Mysteries': The Life and Photographic Work of Man Ray." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, p. 20.
Milly Heyd. "Man Ray/Emmanuel Radnitsky: Who is Behind 'The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse'." Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art. Ed. Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd. New Brunswick, N.J., 2001, p. 129.
George Baker. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. Cambridge, Mass., 2007, pp. 184, 187, ill. p. 185.
Dawn Ades inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 92, 233, fig. 110.
Katie Croll-Knight inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 187.
Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 60.
George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 137–38, fig. 5 (not this version; collection Baltimore Museum of Art).
Lauren Schell Dickens in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum. New York, 2009, fig. 42 (reproduces Ref. La Révolution Surréaliste 1926).
Michel Poivert inLa Subversion des images: Surréalisme, Photographie, Film. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. Paris, 2009, pp. 313, 469, ill. p. 326.
Kim Knowles. A Cinematic Artist: The Films of Man Ray. Oxford, 2012, pp. 4, 174, 242.
Francis M. Naumann. Man Ray: Continued and Noticed. Exh. cat., Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. New York, 2016, pp. 20–21, 25, pl. 27.
Beth Gates Warren and Marie Difilippantonio. Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy. [Newtown, Conn.], 2023, p. 472.
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. 130–31, 302, 316 n. 19, colorpl. 86.
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. 295.
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