Inscription: Inscribed (verso, in pencil): S. Lewis
Marking: Stamped (verso, center and bottom right): MAN RAY / 81 bis, Rue / Campagne / Première / PARIS
[Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York]; Thomas Walther, New York (1989–2011; sold in 2011 through Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2011)
"Sinclair Lewis—American Satirist and Novelist." Vanity Fair 24 (May 1925), ill. p. 75 (unknown edition).
Man Ray. Photographs by Man Ray: 1920 Paris 1934. Hartford, 1934, ill. p. 70 (unknown edition, reversed orientation).
Lee Miller. "I Worked With Man Ray." Lilliput 9 (October 1941), ill. p. 320 (unknown edition, reversed orientation).
Man Ray. Self Portrait. Boston, 1963, p. 190.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 283, 372, fig. 422 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris edition).
Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, p. 195, no. 62, ill. and ill. p. 78 (unknown edition, alternate orientation), dates it 1926.
Janus in Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. Man Ray: Photographe. Exh. cat.Paris, 1981, p. 28.
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. 111.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, p. 155, fig. 129 (not this edition, reversed orientation).
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais inMan Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, pp. 65, 70, 113, dates it 1926.
Erin C. Garcia. Man Ray in Paris. Los Angeles, 2011, pp. 17, 124, colorpl. 22 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles edition), dates it 1922.
Arthur Lubow. Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows. New Haven, 2021, p. 65.
Michael R. Taylor in Michael R. Taylor. Man Ray: The Paris Years. Exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, Va., [2021], pp. 14, 21, 115, 127, colorpl. 37 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles edition), dates it 1925.
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], pp. 275, 283, 290.
Mark Braude. Kiki, Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris. New York, 2022, p. 73.
Beth Gates Warren and Marie Difilippantonio. Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy. [Newtown, Conn.], 2023, vol. 2, p. 479.
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. 221, 305, colorpl. 148.
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