Untitled

Marking: Stamped (verso): MAN RAY / 31 bis, Rue / Campagne / Première / PARIS XIV

the artist (from 1931; to Verneuil); Maurice Verneuil, Paris and Switzerland (until d. 1942; his family, from 1942); by descent to Gaspard de Marval, Lausanne (until 1998; sale, Phillips, New York, April 6, 1998, no. 52, as "Solarized Nude"); Joy of Giving Something, Inc., New York (in 2008); Hans P. Kraus, New York (2011–12; sold in 2012 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2012)

Man Ray. Photographs by Man Ray: 1920 Paris 1934. Hartford, 1934, ill. p. 35.

Beaumont Newhall. The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day. 4th rev. and enl. ed. (1st ed., 1937). New York, 1964, ill. p. 164 (Museum of Modern Art, New York edition), calls it "Sleeping woman" and dates it 1929.

Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, p. 373, fig. 449 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris edition), calls it "Solarization (untitled)".

Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, p. 201, no. 113, ill. and ill. p. 138 (unknown edition), calls it "Solarizzazione".

Man Ray. Photographs by Man Ray: 105 works, 1920–1934. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1934). New York, 1979, ill. p. 35, [reprints Ref. Man Ray 1934].

Winifred Schiffman in Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston. L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1985, fig. 222 (uknown edition; private collection).

Ingrid Schaffner. "Plates." Julian Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery. Ed. Ingrid Schaffner and Lisa Jacobs. Cambridge, Mass., 1998, pl. 42 (Thomas Walther Collection edition).

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, ill. p. 50 (unknown edition; private collection).

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2001, ill. p. 32 (unknown edition; private collection), [reprints Ref. l'Ecotais 2000].

Katie Croll-Knight in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 200.

Sara Cochran in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 152, 235, fig. 199, calls it "Solarized Nude"; generally discusses the solarization process.

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. 259, 306, colorpl. 175.