Tristan Tzara (until d. 1963; his estate, 1963–68; his estate sale, Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, June 12, 1968, no. 326); Arturo Schwarz, Milan (by 1973–ca. 1980s; sold ca. 1980s through Sarenco and Sarenco to Jedermann); Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (ca. 1980s–2009; sold in 2009 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2009)
Rotterdam. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. "Man Ray," September 24–November 7, 1971, no. 249 (dated 1918; lent by Galleria Schwarz, Milan).
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne. "Man Ray," January 7–February 28, 1972, no. 249 (dated 1918; lent by Galleria Schwarz, Milan).
Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," December 2, 1988–February 20, 1989, unnumbered cat. (fig. 69; as "Man," 1918).
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Art of Photography 1839–1989," September 23–December 23, 1989, no. 240 (as "Man (Homme)," 1918, lent by Jedermann Collection, N.A.).
London. Serpentine Gallery. "Man Ray," January 8–March 12, 1995, unnumbered cat. (fig. 4; as "Man," 1918, lent by a private collection, USA).
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder," April 27–August 18, 1996, unnumbered cat. (p. 79; as "Man," 1918, lent by the Jedermann, N.A., Collection).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," November 21, 1996–February 23, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 108; as "Homme (Man)," 1918, lent by the Jedermann Collection, N.A.).
London. Tate Modern. "Surrealism: Desire Unbound," September 20, 2001–January 1, 2002, unnumbered cat. (fig. 168; as "Man," 1918, lent by the Jedermann Collection, N.A.).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Surrealism: Desire Unbound," February 6–May 12, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. "Dada," October 5, 2005–January 9, 2006, no. 1093 (as "Man [Homme]," 1918, lent by a private collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Dada," February 19–May 14, 2006, unnumbered cat. (pl. 298; as "L'Homme (Man)," 1918, lent by a private collectIon).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Dada," June 18–September 11, 2006, unnumbered cat.
New York. Jewish Museum. "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," November 15, 2009–March 14, 2010, unnumbered cat. (fig. 64; as "L'Homme (Man)," 1918, lent by a private collection, New York).
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today," August 1–November 1, 2010, unnumbered cat. (pl. 172; as "L'Homme (Man)," 1918, lent by a private collection, New York).
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," February 7–May 10, 2015, unnumbered cat. (fig. 88; as "Man," 1918, lent by The Bluff Collection).
Copenhagen. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," June 11–September 20, 2015, unnumbered cat.
Jerusalem. Israel Museum. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," October 20, 2015–January 23, 2016, unnumbered cat.
Kunsthaus Zürich. "Dadaglobe Reconstructed," February 5–May 1, 2016, unnumbered cat. (pl. 113; as "L'homme," lent by The Bluff Collection).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Dadaglobe Reconstructed," June 12–September 18, 2016, unnumbered cat.
Arturo Schwarz, ed. Man Ray: 60 anni di libertà. Exh. cat., Galleria Schwarz. Milan, 1971, p. 149, no. 18, ill. p. 27, dates it 1918.
Janus. Man Ray. Milan, 1973, p. 33, pl. 166, calls it "L'homme," dates it 1918, and locates it in the collection of the Galleria Schwarz, Milan.
John Tancock inMarcel Duchamp. Ed. Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York, 1973, pp. 161–62, ill., dates it 1918.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 158, 233–34, 368, no. 272, ill. p. 149, calls it "Man," and dates it 1918; discusses both the original Readymade and the resulting photograph.
Erika Billeter. Malerei und Photographie im Dialog: von 1840 bis heute. Bern, 1977, p. 402, fig. 297, calls it "Man" and dates it 1918.
Jean-Hubert Martin inMan Ray: Photographe. Exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1981, p. 16.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray, Carte Varie e Variabili. Exh. cat., Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, 1983, pp. 19, 130, no. 256, pl. 80, dates it 1918.
Jane Livingston in Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston. L’Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1985, p. 123, fig. 110, calls it "Man" and dates it 1918.
Sandra S. Phillips. "Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy: Rayographs and Photograms." Arts in Virginia 25, no. 2–3 (1985), pp. 55–56.
Merry Foresta inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 24–25.
Francis Naumann inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 76–80, 86 nn. 34–35, fig. 69.
Billy Klüver and Julie Martin inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 92–93.
Sandra S. Phillips inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 178, 181, 183–84.
Barbara Zabel. "Man Ray and the Machine." Smithsonian Studies in American Art 3, no. 4 (Autumn 1989), p. 79, fig. 10, calls it "L'Homme" and dates it 1918.
Francis M. Naumann. New York Dada, 1915–23. New York, 1994, p. 84, ill. p. 85, calls it "Man" and dates it 1918.
Todd Alden in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, ill. p. 108.
Barbara Zabel in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 284.
Rosalind Krauss in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, pp. 249, 251, ill. p. 248.
Linda Dalrymple Henderson in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 237.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Americans in Paris (1921–1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection. Washington, D.C., 1996, pp. 15–16, 169, ill. p. 79.
Allan Antliff in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 213.
Amelia Jones in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 242.
Francis M. Naumann in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, pp. 25, 293.
Peggy Elaine Schrock. "Man Ray's 'Le Cadeau': The Unnatural Woman and the De-Sexing of Modern Man." Woman's Art Journal 17, no. 2 (Fall 1996/Winter 1997), p. 26, fig. 2, calls it "Man" and dates it 1918.
Caroline A. Jones. "The Sex of the Machine: Mechanomorphic Art, New Women, and Francis Picabia's Neurasthenic Cure." Picturing Science, Producing Art. Ed. Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison. New York, 1998, pp. 146–47, 150, 174 n. 6, fig. 1, calls it "L'Homme" and dates it 1918.
Dawn Ades inSurrealism: Desire Unbound. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2001, pp. 177, 332, fig. 168 (color).
Janine Mileaf. "Between You and Me: Man Ray's 'Object to Be Destroyed'." Art Journal 63, no. 1 (Spring 2004), p. 15.
Michael R. Taylor in Leah Dickerman. Dada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Washington, D.C., 2005, p. 288, colorpl. 298.
Janine Mileaf and Matthew S. Witkovsky in Leah Dickerman. Dada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Washington, D.C., 2005, p. 355.
George Baker. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. Cambridge, Mass., 2007, pp. 180, 182, ill. p. 138, calls it "Man" and dates it 1918.
Dawn Ades inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 95.
Katie Croll-Knight inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 183, 191.
Jennifer Mundy inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 25, 28, 233, fig. 23 (color) [not this edition], calls it "Man" and dates it 1918.
Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 59–60, 214 n. 47, fig. 64 (color).
George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 146, 152.
Merry A. Foresta in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 111–12.
Margaret Sundell. "From Fine Art to Fashion: Man Ray's Ambivalent Avant-Garde." PhD diss., Columbia University, 2009, pp. 6, 17, 20, 158, fig. 1.5, calls it "Homme" and dates it 1918.
Roxana Marcoci in Roxana Marcoci. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2010, p. 167, colorpl. 172.
Francis M. Naumann. The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Essays on the Art, Life and Legacy of Marcel Duchamp. New York, 2012, pp. 225, 516, fig. 19.18.
Roxana Marcoci inBrancusi, Rosso, Man Ray: Framing Sculpture. Exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Rotterdam, 2014, pp. 35, 37–38, fig. 1 (color), calls it "L'Homme" and dates it 1918.
Wendy A. Grossman inMan Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare. Ed. Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Ostfildern, 2015, pp. 116, 226, fig. 88 (color).
Adrian Sudhalter in Adrian Sudhalter. Dadaglobe Reconstructed. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich. Zürich, 2016, pp. 51–52, 67, 108, 122, colorpl. 113, fig. 27 (color, recto and verso) and ill. p. 122 ("Dadaglobe" mockup).
Francis M. Naumann. Man Ray: Continued and Noticed. Exh. cat., Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. New York, 2016, pp. 19, 32, fig. 9, dates it 1920.
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. 70, 72, 106, 220.
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. 291.
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. 88, 300, 313 n. 9, colorpl. 49.
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