Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Man Ray 1922; inscribed (verso, in pencil): 32
the artist (1922–probably late 1960s; sold, probably in the late 1960s, to Crane); Arnold Crane, Chicago (probably late 1960s–at least 1975); private collection; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1998]; Henry Buhl, New York (by 2004–2012, his sale, Sotheby’s New York, December 12, 2012, no. 5, sold to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2012)
Paris. Bibliotheque Nationale. "Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique," 1962 (one of nos. 5–9).
Milwaukee Art Center. "Man Ray: Photo Graphics from the Collection of Arnold H. Crane," February 10–March 11, 1973, no. 2 (as "Hand with Egg").
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 (lent by Arnold Crane).
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection," June 4–September 8, 2004, unnumbered cat. (as "Rayograph with Hand and Egg").
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. "Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection," November 25, 2005–March 22, 2006, no catalogue.
Essen. Museum Folkwang. "Speaking with hands: Fotografien aus der Sammlung Buhl," May 20–July 30, 2006.
St. Petersburg. State Russian Museum. "Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection," September 21–October 31, 2006, no catalogue.
Moscow Museum of Modern Art. "Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection," December 2006–March 2007, no catalogue.
Palm Beach Photographic Center. "In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection," March 2011, no catalogue.
Middletown, Del. Warner Gallery at St. Andrew's School. "In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection," October–November 2011, no catalogue.
Broom 4 (March 1923), ill. facing p. 257.
L[ászló]. Moholy-Nagy. "Fotoplastische Reklame." Offset Buch und Werbekunst no. 7 (1926), ill. p. 388.
ReD no. 1 (October 1927), ill. p. 23.
László Moholy-Nagy. Painting, Photography, Film. Cambridge, Mass., 1987, ill. p. 77.
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. Man Ray: Rayographies. Paris, 2002, pp. 215, 280–81, no. 67, ill., dates it before March 1923.
Kirsten A. Hoving in Jennifer Blessing. Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 2004, pp. 97–98, ill. (color) p. 97 and front cover.
Matthew S. Witkovsky in Jennifer Blessing. Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 2004, p. 241, ill. (color).
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, p. 221.
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. 293–96.
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. 184, 303, colorpl. 113.
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