Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, from incised negative): MAN RAY '26; signed and dated (lower right of mount, in pencil): Man Ray - 26
Marking: Stamped (verso of mount): MAN RAY / 31 bis Rue / Campagne / Première / PARIS
the artist (1926–40s; gift in the 1940s to Miller); Elsa Miller, California (from 1940s); (sale, Sotheby’s, London, May 4, 2000, no. 144); [Edwynn Houk Gallery, until 2002; sold in 2002 to Pritzker]; John A. Pritzker (from 2002)
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. "La Subversion des Images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film," September 23, 2009–January 11, 2010, unnumbered cat. (p. 403; lent by a private collection).
Fotomuseum Winterthur. "Subversion der Bilder–Surrealismus, Fotografie und Film," February 27–May 23, 2010, unnumbered cat.
Vogue 7 (May 1, 1926), p. 37, ill.
Variétés 1 (July 15, 1928), ill. between pp. 154 and 155.
Pierre Migennes. "Les Photographies de Man Ray." Art et Décoration 54 (November 1928), pp. 154–55, ill.
Man Ray. Photographs by Man Ray: 1920 Paris 1934. Hartford, 1934, ill. p. 44.
Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, p. 193, no. 55, ill. and ill. p. 71 (unknown edition), calls it "Composizione" and dates it about 1925.
Man Ray. Photographs by Man Ray: 105 works, 1920–1934. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1934). New York, 1979, ill. p. 44, [reprints Ref. Man Ray 1934].
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. 88, no. 109, ill. p. 106 (not this edition; private collection, Paris).
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. 9.
Evan Maurer in"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern. Ed. William Rubin. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1984, vol. 2, p. 539, ill. (Zabriskie Gallery, New York edition).
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, pp. 135, 145, fig. 123 (not this edition; collection Lucien Treillard, Paris), calls it "Black and White (Noire et blanche)".
Billy Klüver and Julie Martin inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, p. 125.
Sandra S. Phillips inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 191, 229 n. 14, fig. 164 (not this edition).
Sidra Stich. Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. Exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley. New York, 1990, pp. 58, 61, pl. 64 (not this edition), calls it "Black and White (Noire et blanche)".
Marianna Torgovnick. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Chicago, 1990, pp. 34–36, 102, 133, fig. 1.5 (Museum of Modern Art, New York edition), calls it "Kiki" and "Noire et blanche".
Jan Ceuleers, ed. Man Ray: 1890–1976. Exh. cat., Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp. Ghent, 1994, no. 52, ill. p. 40 (not this edition; private collection, Paris).
Colin Rhodes. Primitivism and Modern Art. London, 1994, pp. 170, 212, fig. 140 (unknown edition), calls it "Black and White".
Merry Foresta inMan Ray. Exh. brochure, Serpentine Gallery. [London], 1995, unpaginated, fig. 6 (not this edition; private collection, New York).
Whitney Chadwick. "Fetishizing Fashion/Fetishizing Culture: Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche'." Oxford Art Journal 18, no. 2 (1995), pp. 3, 5–6, 8–13, 15, fig. 1 (not this edition; collection Lucien Treillard, Paris).
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag, ed. Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1998, p. 246.
Lucien Treillard and Musée National d'Art Moderne inMan Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1998, p. 243.
Serge Bramly inMan Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, p. 39 n. 3, ill. p. 12 (MoMA, New York edition).
Herbert R. Lottman. Man Ray's Montparnasse. New York, 2001, ill. p. 57 (unknown edition), calls it "Blanche et Noir".
Hans-Michael Koetzle. Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures, 1827–1926. Cologne, 2002, pp. 178–79, 182–84, ill. pp. 176–77 (unknown edition), 182 (reproduces Ref. Vogue 1926).
Alexandre Castant. Noire et blanche de Man Ray. Paris, 2003, pp. 2–3, 5, 8, 12, 14, 18, 21, 24–25, 30–31, ill. pp. 2, front cover.
Wendy Grossman. "(Con)text and Image: Reframing Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche'." Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative. Ed. Alex Hughes and Andrea Noble. Albuquerque, 2003, pp. 119–25, 127–28, 131–33, fig. 6.1 (unknown edition).
David Bate. Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent. London, 2003, pp. 172–74, 177, 181, 183, 185, 195–99, figs. 34 (reproduces Ref. Vogue 1926), 35 (reproduces Ref. Variétés 1928).
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, pp. 40–43, 45, 48 n. 9, fig. 1.3 (unknown edition).
Wendy A. Grossman and Steven Manford. "Unmasking Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche'." American Art 20, no. 2 (Summer 2006), pp. 134–45, 146 nn. 1, 3, 7, p. 147 nn. 13, 17–20, 22, figs. 1 (unknown edition), 9 (reproduces Ref. Vogue 1926), 11–12 (details of retouched negative, for positive print) 13 (detail of retouched negative, for negative print), 14 (detail of posthumous print).
Dawn Ades inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 111–12, 235, fig. 138 (not this edition; collection Sir Elton John Photography).
Katie Croll-Knight inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 192.
Michael R. Taylor inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 162.
Wendy Grossman. "Man Ray's Lost and Found Photographs: Arts of the Americas in Context." Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 2, no. 1 (2008), pp. 122–23, 126, 136 n. 34, fig. 5 (unknown edition).
Merry A. Foresta in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 118, fig. 12 (not this edition; collection Thomas and Janine Koerfer-Weill).
Emmanuelle Etchecopar-Etchart inLa Subversion des images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. Paris, 2009, p. 449.
Clément Chéroux inLa Subversion des images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. Paris, 2009, pp. 394, 469, ill. pp. 402 (reproduces Ref. Vogue 1926), 403.
Quentin Bajac. "From work to archive." Man Ray Portraits: Paris—Hollywood—Paris. Ed. Clément Chéroux. Munich, 2011, p. 23.
Clément Chéroux. "'Plain faces assembled outside time': Man Ray's Portraits." Man Ray Portraits: Paris—Hollywood—Paris. Ed. Clément Chéroux. Munich, 2011, p. 38.
Terence Pepper. Man Ray: Portraits. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery. London, 2013, p. 16, no. 55, ill. p. 83 (Israel Museum, Jerusalem edition).
Helen Trompeteler in Terence Pepper. Man Ray: Portraits. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery. London, 2013, p. 192.
Rune Gade inMan Ray. Ed. Karolina Peterson et al. Exh. cat., Mjellby Konstmuseum. Halmstad, 2013, pp. 154–55, 160 n. 61, pp. 203–4, 207 n. 61, fig. 11, ill. p. 114 (not this edition; collection Fondazione Marconi, Milan).
Michael R. Taylor in Michael R. Taylor. Man Ray: The Paris Years. Exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Va., [2021], pp. 22, 107, 139, 237, pl. 49 (Baltimore Museum of Art edition).
Michael R. Taylor and Madeleine Dugan in Michael R. Taylor. Man Ray: The Paris Years. Exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Va., [2021], p. 278.
Mark Braude. Kiki, Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris. New York, 2022, pp. 157–63, 255.
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, pp. 321–22 n. 15, colorpl. 143.
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. 295–96.
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