Champs délicieux (Delicious Fields)

Inscription: Each print signed (lower right): Man Ray; signed and inscribed (on colophon page): à M. Marteau / avec mes meilleures eclairages / Man Ray / le 16 octobre 1924; Pour Jean / Man Ray / Paris 1970

the artist (1922–24; on October 16, 1924 to Marteau); Mr. Marteau (from 1924); Jean Petithory (from 1970); Paul Destribats, Paris (probably by 2002–d. 2017; his estate, 2017–19; his estate sale, Christie’s, Paris, July 3, 2019, no. 113, sold to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2019)

Eugene. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. October 9, 2019–January 12, 2020.

Pierre Migennes. "Les Photographies de Man Ray." Art et Décoration 54 (July–December 1928), pp. 155–56, ill. pp. 155–57, calls it "Champ délicieux".

Georges Hugnet. "Dada." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 4 (November–December 1936), p. 16, calls it "Les champs délicieux".

Jean Adhémar and Evelyne Pasquet. Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique. Exh. cat., Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, 1962, p. 6, no. 10.

Man Ray. Self Portrait. Boston, 1963, p. 130, calls it "Les Champs Délicieux".

José Pierre. Le Surréalisme. Paris, 1966, p. 41.

John Fuller. "Atget and Man Ray in the Context of Surrealism." Art Journal (Winter 1976–77), p. 138 n. 19, calls it "Les Champs délicieux".

Beaumont Newhall. The History of Photography, From 1839 to the Present. Rev. and enl. ed. New York, 1982, p. 199, ill. p. 203 (MoMA edition), calls it "Les Champs délicieux (Delectable Fields)".

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, p. 230, calls it "Les Champs délicieux".

Sandra S. Phillips. "Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy: Rayographs and Photograms." Arts in Virginia 25, no. 2–3 (1985), pp. 51–52, 63, figs. 5, 21 (MoMA edition), calls it "Les Champs Délicieux".

Neil Baldwin. Man Ray: American Artist. New York, 1988, pp. 109, 393, calls it "Les champs délicieux".

Elizabeth Garrity Ellis in Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Americans in Paris (1921–1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 1996, ill. pp. 84–89 (Art Institute of Chicago edition), calls it "Les Champs délicieux".

Leigh Bullard Weisblat in Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Americans in Paris (1921–1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 1996, p. 163.

Lucien Treillard and Musée National d'Art Moderne in Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1998, pp. 240, 244.

Katherine Ware. A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray. Exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 1998, unpaginated, calls it "Les champs délicieux (The Delicious Fields)".

Floris M. Neusüss and Renate Heyne in Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, pp. 188–91, 193, 246.

Katherine Ware. "'Chemist of Mysteries': The Life and Photographic Work of Man Ray." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, pp. 22–24, 246, ill. pp. 219–21 (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris edition).

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, p. 34.

Sylvie Pénichon. "'Champs délicieux:' An Album of Twelve Rayographs by Man Ray." Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums: Postprints of the Book and Paper Group/Photographic Materials Group Join Session at the 27th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. 29–31.

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2001, pp. 17–18, 82–83, 127–28, 177–78, ill. pp. 158–59 (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris edition), [reprints Ref. l'Ecotais 2000].

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. Man Ray: Rayographies. Paris, 2002, pp. 207–9, 280–81, nos. 31–42, ill. and ill. pp. 38, 47, 71, 80 (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris edition), notes that this edition (no. 20) is in a private collection, Paris.

Nathalie Ernoult in Dada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. Paris, 2005, p. 754.

Quentin Bajac in Dada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. Paris, 2005, pp. 606, 646, no. 1203, figs. 3–8, ill. pp. 731–32 (Centre Pompidou, Paris edition).

Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 22–23, figs. 22–24 (Ohio State University Libraries edition), calls it "Les champs délicieux (Fields of Delight)".

Lauren Schell Dickens in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum. New York, 2009, p. 185, calls it "Les champs délicieux".

Merry A. Foresta in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 114–15, 219 n. 13, calls it "Les champs délicieux".

Erin C. Garcia. Man Ray in Paris. Los Angeles, 2011, pp. 64, 125, ill. p. 65 (detail), colorpls. 31–36 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles edition), calls it "Les Champ Délicieux (The Delicious Fields)".

Karen Barber. "Writing with Light: Cameraless Photography and Its Narrative in the 1920s." PhD diss., City University of New York, 2018, pp. 11, 18, 22 n. 1, pp. 25, 46–48, 66, 73, 124, 150, 252–53, figs. 1-14 (cover), 1-15 (all rayographs), 1-31 (Tristan Tzara's preface to "Champs Délicieux"), calls it "Les Champs délicieux".

Susan Laxton. Surrealism at Play. Durham, N.C., 2019, pp. 59–60, 64, fig. 1.11 (Art Institute of Chicago edition).

Lee Ann Daffner and Jane Pierce. "Man Ray's 'Champs Délicieux' Turns 100." moma.org/magazine. February 3, 2022, ill. (color) (MoMA edition).

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. 105, 127–28, 131, 159, 197, 200, 221, 320 n. 7, ill. (color details) pp. 68, 104, 126, 158, 196, 216.

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. 292–94, 296–98.

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. 146, 183, 238, 257, 260, ill. (color details) pp. 50, 86, 142, 180, 236, 254.

Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, pp. 15, 23–31, 299, figs. 10–23 (post-edition no. 41/40) colorpls. 1–12.