Catherine Barometer

Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Man Ray Catherine Barometer 1921

the artist (1920–48; in 1948 to Copley); William N. Copley, New York (1948–79; his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, November 5, 1979, no. 30, sold to Tarica); [Galerie Tarica, Paris, 1979–80; sold in 1980 to Gaston-Dreyfus); Gaston-Dreyfus, Paris (1980–d.); by descent to private collection, Europe (until 2017; sale, Christie’s, New York, November 13, 2017, no. 3A, sold to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2017)

Paris. Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées. "Société des Artistes Indépendants: 33e Exposition," January 28–February 28, 1922, no. 3065 (dated 1921).

New York. Little Review. January 10–February 1, 1924, no catalogue.

Paris. Galerie Surréaliste. "Tableaux de Man Ray et Objets des Iles," March 26–April 10, 1926, no. 13.

London. Institute of Contemporary Arts. "An Exhibition Retrospective and Prospective of the Works of Man Ray," March 31–April 25, 1959, no. 20 (lent by a private collection).

New York. Cordier & Ekstrom, inc. "Man Ray: A Selection of Paintings," January 14–February 7, 1970, unnumbered cat. (lent by a private collection).

New York Cultural Center. "Man Ray: Inventor/Painter/Poet," December 19, 1974–March 2, 1975, no. 122 (lent by Mr. William Copley, New York).

Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Man Ray," December 9, 1981–May 2, 1982, not in catalogue (brochure no. 24; lent by a private collection).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Man Ray," October 26, 1966–January 1, 1967, no. 147 (lent anonymously).

Eugene. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. February 7–May 13, 2018.

Man Ray. "Bilingual Biography." View 1 (March 1945), p. 32.

Man Ray. Self Portrait. Boston, 1963, pp. 110, 118–19.

James R. Mellow. "Man Ray: 'Last of the Red Hot Dadas'." New York Times (February 1, 1970), p. D29.

Renilde Hammacher-van den Brande and Liesbeth Brandt Corstius. Man Ray. Exh. cat., Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. [Rotterdam], [1971], pp. 112, 144, no. 141.

William Copley. Man Ray: Inventor/Painter/Poet. Exh. cat., New York Cultural Center. [New York], 1974, unpaginated, no. 122, ill.

Roland Penrose. Man Ray. Boston, 1975, p. 72.

Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 57–58, 161–62, 367, fig. 244 (color).

Ruth L. Bohan. "Katherine Sophie Dreier and New York Dada." Arts Magazine 51 (May 1977), p. 100, fig. 6.

Jean-Hubert Martin, ed. Man Ray. Exh. brochure, Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1981, p. 7, no. 24, ill. p. 6.

Jean-Hubert Martin. Man Ray: Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, pp. 140–41, no. 17, ill. p. 33.

Billy Klüver and Julie Martin in Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 94, 107.

Elizabeth Hutton Turner in Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, p. 143, fig. 112, locates it in the collection of Alain Terika (sic), Paris.

Man Ray. Self Portrait. 2nd ed. [1st ed. 1963]. Boston, 1988, pp. 94, 100.

Francis M. Naumann. New York Dada, 1915–23. New York, 1994, pp. 90–91, ill., locates it in a private collection, Paris.

Amelia Jones in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 241.

Abraham A. Davidson in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 225.

Caroline A. Jones. "The Sex of the Machine: Mechanomorphic Art, New Women, and Francis Picabia's Neurasthenic Cure." Picturing Science, Producing Art. Ed. Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison. New York, 1998, pp. 151–52.

Amelia Jones. "'Women' in Dada: Elsa, Rrose, and Charlie." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender and Identity. Ed. Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1998, pp. 148, 168 n. 23, fig. 6.1.

Eleanor S. Apter. "Regimes of Coincidence: Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Dada." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender and Identity. Ed. Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1998, p. 393.

Carolyn Burke. "Recollecting Dada: Juliette Roche." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender and Identity. Ed. Naomi Sawelson-Gorse. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1998, p. 570.

Katie Croll-Knight in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 191.

Bill Brown. Other Things. Chicago, 2015, p. 117.

Adina Kamien-Karzhdan. Remaking the Readymade: Duchamp, Man Ray, and the Conundrum of the Replica. London, 2018, pp. 202, 287.

Arthur Lubow. Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows. New Haven, 2021, pp. 43, 53, 153, 158, dates it 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, 320 n. 11, colorpl. 145.

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. 292, 295.