Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in pencil): Man Ray 1922; inscribed, signed, and dated (verso, lower right, in pencil): Original 1922 / "Kiki"
Marking: Stamped (verso): EPREUVE ORIGINALE / Atelier Man Ray / PARIS; (verso): ORIGINAL
the artist (1922–at least 1965; to Treillard); Lucien Treillard, Paris (sold to Jedermann); Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (in 1987); [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, until 1997; sold in 1997 to Pritzker]; John A. Pritzker (from 1997)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center. "Twentieth-Century Master American Photographs," January 30–April 8, 1987, unnumbered cat. (as "Rayogram, Kiki," lent by the Jedermann Collection, N.A.).
Stamford, Conn. Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County. "Twentieth-Century Master American Photographs," September 9–November 11, 1987, unnumbered cat.
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.
Los Angeles. Museum of Contemporary Art. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," March 17–May 28, 1989, not in catalogue.
Houston. Menil Collection. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," June 30–September 17, 1989, not in catalogue.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," October 14, 1989–January 7, 1990, not in catalogue.
Santa Fe. Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico. "Proto-Modern Photography," July 11–October 11, 1992, no. 59 (as "Kiki," lent by a private collection).
Antwerp. Ronny Van de Velde. "Man Ray 1890–1976," September 18–December 18, 1994, no. 293 (as "Rayograph (Kiki)," lent by a private collection).
London. Serpentine Gallery. "Man Ray," January 8–March 12, 1995, unnumbered cat. (as "Rayograph (Kiki)," lent by a private collection, USA).
Billy Klüver and Julie Martin. Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900–1930. New York, 1989, p. 110, fig. 3 (not this edition; alternate orientation).
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. Man Ray: Rayographies. Paris, 2002, p. 204, no. 22, ill. (unknown edition), calls it "Sans titre".
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. 51, 299, colorpl. 14.
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