the artist (1920–d. 1976); his widow, Juliet Man Ray (1976–82; sold in 1982 to Miller); [Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1982–84; sold in 1984 to Spiegel]; Emily and Jerry Spiegel, New York (1984–2017; their sale, Christie’s, New York, October 10, 2017, no. 19, sold to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2017)
Tristan Tzara. "New York-Dada." New York Dada (April 1921), ill. n.p.
ReD 1, no. 4 (January 1928), ill. p. 144, dates it 1922.
Georges Hugnet. "L'Esprit Dada dans la Peinture (Fin)." Cahiers d'Art 11, nos. 8–10 (1936), p. 269, ill.
Man Ray. Oggetti d'Affezione. Turin, 1970, no. 11, ill. p. 31, calls it "Coat Stand".
Janus. Man Ray. Milan, 1973, p. 33, pl. 171 (1920/1972 edition, Galleria Il Fauno, Turin collection), calls it "Coat stand".
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 121, 160, 233, 368, fig. 278 (readymade), discusses the readymade photographed for this work; calls it "Portemanteau (Coat Stand)".
Erika Billeter. Malerei und Photographie im Dialog: von 1840 bis heute. Bern, 1977, p. 402, fig. 296 (not this edition, private collection, Milan), calls it "Porte-Manteau".
Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, pp. 181–82, no. 11, ill. and ill. p. 27 (unknown edition), calls it "Coat Stand".
Herbert Molderings inMan Ray: Photographe. Exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1981, p. 16, no. 5, ill. p. 18 (Studio Marconi, Milan edition), calls it "Coat-Stand".
Jean-Hubert Martin. Man Ray: Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, p. 141, no. 18, ill. p. 33, calls it "Coat Stand/Porte-manteau".
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray, Carte Varie e Variabili. Exh. cat., Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, 1983, pp. 21, 130, no. 274, pl. 155 (Vera and Arturo Schwarz, Milan edition).
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. 24, fig. 18 (reproduces Ref. Tzara 1921).
El Lissitzky and Hans Arp. Die Kunstismen/Les Ismes de L'Art/The Isms of Art. Reprint ed. (1st ed. 1925). Rolandseck, 1990, fig. 46 (unknown edition), call it "Model" and date it 1922.
Todd Alden in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 294, ill. pp. 138 (not this edition, private collection), 150 (reproduces Ref. Tzara 1921), calls it "Portmanteau".
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, 251, calls it "Portmanteau (dadaphoto)".
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, ill. p. 73 (unknown edition, private collection), calls it "Coat Stand".
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2001, ill. p. 53 (unknown edition, private collection), calls it "Coat Stand" [reprints Ref. l'Ecotais 2000].
Dietmar Elger. Dadaism. Ed. Uta Grosenick. Cologne, 2004, p. 86, ill. p. 87 (Kunsthaus Zurich edition), calls it "Clothes stand"; discusses both the readymade and the photograph.
Michael R. Taylor in Leah Dickerman. Dada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Washington, D.C., 2005, pp. 295–96, pl. 301 (Centre Pompidou, Paris edition).
George Baker. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. Cambridge, Mass., 2007, pp. 15, 160–61, 164–65, 167–68, 171–73, 176, 181–82, 184, 187, 190, 194–96, 200, 428 n. 24, ill. pp. 163 (reproduces Ref. Tzara 1921), 166 (Centre Pompidou, Paris edition), discusses the three titles associated with this work: "Dadaphoto," "Portemanteau," and "Coat Stand".
Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 56–59, fig. 60 (Fondazione Marguerite Arp, Locarno edition), calls it "Dadaphoto (Coat Stand)" in caption.
Margaret Sundell. "From Fine Art to Fashion: Man Ray's Ambivalent Avant-Garde." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009, pp. 102–5, fig. 2.6 (unknown edition), calls it "Coat Stand".
Emily Hage. "The Magazine as Readymade: New York Dada and the Transgression of Genre and Gender Boundaries." Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 3, no. 2 (2012), p. 184, fig. 2 (reproduces Ref. Tzara 1921).
Janine Mileaf. "Captured Things: Man Ray's Object Photography." On Writing with Photography. Ed. Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg. Minneapolis, 2013, pp. 78, 82, fig. 4.3 (Centre Pompidou, Paris edition), calls it "The Coat-stand (Dadaphoto)".
Maria Morris Hambourg. "Lost and Found: The Emergence and Rediscovery of European Avant-Garde Photography." Object: Photo, Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949. New York, 2014, p. 21, fig. 1 (Centre Pompidou, Paris edition), calls it "Porte-manteau (Coat Stand)".
Beth Gates Warren and Marie Difilippantonio. Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy. [Newtown, Conn.], 2023, vol. 2, pp. 472–73, discuss Ref. Tzara 1921.
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. 220, 305, colorpl. 146.
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, pp. 291, 294, 296.
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, p. 52.
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