Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in pencil): Man Ray 1924; signed (verso, in pencil): Man Ray
Marking: Stamped (verso): ORIGINAL
the artist (1924–ca. 1968/70; ca. 1968/70 to Crane); Arnold Crane, Chicago (ca. 1968/70–2007; sold in 2007 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2007)
Milwaukee Art Center. "Man Ray: Photo Graphics from the Collection of Arnold H. Crane," February 10–March 11, 1973, no. 10 (as "Gears and Gauze (a la Picabia)").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Man Ray: Photographs and Rayographs," July 18–September 2, 1973, no catalogue (lent by Arnold H. Crane).
Chicago. Museum of Contemporary Art. "Man Ray Photographs," June 28–August 31, 1975, no catalogue.
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection," May 7–July 29, 1979, no catalogue.
Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," December 2, 1988–February 20, 1989, not in catalogue.
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder," April 27–August 18, 1996, unnumbered cat. (p. 96; as "Untitled [gears and gauze]," lent by Arnold Crane, New York).
London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 125; as "Gears and Gauze," lent by The Bluff Collection LP).
Beaumont Newhall. The History of Photography, From 1839 to the Present. Rev. and enl. ed. New York, 1982, ill. p. 202.
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. Man Ray: Rayographies. Paris, 2002, p. 237, no. 148, ill., calls it "Sans titre" and dates it 1925.
Wendy A. Grossman inMan Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare. Ed. Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Ostfildern, 2015, fig. 103 (color) [Yale University Art Gallery edition], calls it "Rayograph (Clock Wheels)" and dates it 1925.
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, pp. 241, 306, colorpl. 165, ill. p. 2 (color).
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