Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Man / Ray 1915
the artist (1915–ca. 1975; ca. 1975 to Combe-Martin); Elsa Combe-Martin (from ca. 1975); (sale, Sotheby’s, New York, November 16, 1983, no. 51, sold to Friedland); Paula and Joel Friedland, Miami Beach (1983–at least 2010); [Francis Naumann, New York, 2019; sold in 2019 to Bluff]; Bluff Collection (from 2019)
New York. Daniel Gallery. "Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Man Ray," November 10–24, 1915 (one of nos. 1, 3, 7, 10, 14, 28; as "Study in Two Dimensions").
New York. Anderson Galleries. "The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters," March 13–25, 1916 (one of nos. 36–37, 39; as "Study in Two Dimensions").
Paris. Cahiers d'Art. "Man Ray: Exposition de Peintures & Objets," November 15–30, 1935, no catalogue.
Paris. Galerie Gradiva. 1937, no catalogue.
London Gallery Ltd. "Man Ray," February 1939, no. 7 (as "Cut-out").
Hollywood. Frank Perls Gallery. "Man Ray: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Photographic Compositions," March 1–26, 1941, no. 5.
Pasadena Art Institute. "Retrospective Exhibition 1913–1944: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Photographs by Man Ray," September 19–October 29, 1944, no. 11 (as "Cut-out").
New York. Julien Levy Gallery. "Exhibition: Man Ray," April 10–30, 1945, no. 1.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Pioneers of Modern Art in America," April 9–May 19, 1946, no. 125.
Düsseldorf. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. "Dada: Dokumente einer Bewegung," September 5–October 19, 1958, no. 143 (as "Abstraktion").
Kunsthaus Zürich. "DADA: Ausstellung zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum," October 8–November 17, 1966, no. 170 (as "Cut-out," lent by Man Ray, Paris).
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne. "DADA: Exposition Commémorative du Cinquantenaire," November 30, 1966–January 30, 1967, no. 170.
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne. "Man Ray," January 7–February 28, 1972, not in catalogue.
Montclair, N. J. Montclair Art Museum. "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray," February 16–August 3, 2003, unnumbered cat. (fig. 149; as "Cut Out," lent by Paula and Joel Friedland).
Athens. Georgia Museum of Art. "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray," September 20–November 30, 2003, unnumbered cat.
Chicago. Terra Museum of American Art. "Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray," January 23–April 4, 2004, unnumbered cat.
New York. Jewish Museum. "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," November 15, 2009–March 14, 2010, unnumbered cat. (fig. 3; as "Cut Out," lent by Joel and Paula Friedland).
Eugene. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. March 20–June 23, 2019.
Carl Belz. "Man Ray and New York Dada." Art Journal 23 (Spring 1964), pp. 208–9, 212, fig. 5, calls it "Cutout".
Janus. Man Ray. Milan, 1973, p. 29, colorpl. 11, calls it "Cut-out".
Sarane Alexandrian. Man Ray. Chicago, 1973, ill. p. 13 (color), calls it "Cut out".
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 33, 360, fig. 31, calls it "Cut Out" and erroneously locates it in the collection of Studio Marconi, Milan.
Francis Naumann. "Man Ray's Early Paintings 1913–1916: Theory and Practice in the Art of Two Dimensions." Artforum 20 (May 1982), p. 40, ill. p. 39, calls it "Cut Out" in image caption.
Francis M. Naumann. "Man Ray and America: The New York and Ridgefield Years: 1907–1921." PhD diss., City University of New York, 1988, pp. 181, 226, 229, 519, 587, no. 256, ill. p. 778.
Janus. Man Ray:Œuvres 1909–1972. Reprint ed. (1st ed., 1973). Paris, 1990, colorpl. 10, calls it "Cut-out" [revises Ref. Janus 1973].
Francis M. Naumann. Conversion to Modernism: The Early Work of Man Ray. Exh. cat., Montclair Art Museum. New Brunswick, N.J., 2003, pp. 133, 155, 157, fig. 149 (color).
Jennifer Mundy inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 20, 232, fig. 12 (color).
George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 130, fig. 3 (color).
Helen Trompeteler in Terence Pepper. Man Ray: Portraits. Exh. cat., National Portrait Gallery. London, 2013, p. 204, calls it "Cutout".
Beth Gates Warren and Marie Difilippantonio. Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy. [Newtown, Conn.], 2023, vol. 2, p. 492.
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. 105–6, 301, 314 n. 2, colorpl. 61.
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, p. 290.
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, p. 51.
Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, fig. 7 (the artist's inventory card for this work, dated about 1919; collection Centre Pompidou, Paris).
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