Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (lower right, in ink): à M. Eluard / Man Ray / 1921
Paul Eluard, Paris (from 1921; gift of the artist); Andre Breton, Paris (until d. 1966); by descent to his daughter, Aube Elléouët, Paris (from 1966); [Galerie 1900-2000, Paris]; Regis Cosatte, Paris; [Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, until 2007; sold in 2007 to Jedermann]; Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (2007–10; sold in 2010 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2010)
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. "Dada," October 5, 2005–January 9, 2006, no. 1120 (lent by a private collection, Paris).
London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 150; lent by a private collection).
New York. Jewish Museum. "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," November 15, 2009–March 14, 2010, unnumbered cat. (fig. 59; dated ca. 1921, lent by a private collection, New York).
391 no. 13 (July 1920), ill. n.p. (not this version).
Henry Tyrrell. "Dada: The Cheerless Art of Idiocy." World Magazine (June 12, 1921), ill. p. 8.
La Vie (Život) (1922), ill. p. 159.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 70, 155–56, 163–64, fig. 258 (readymade in Yale University Art Gallery collection), discusses the readymade.
Nathalie Ernoult inDada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. Paris, 2005, pp. 602, 648, no. 1120, fig. 2 (color), discusses the readymade.
Katie Croll-Knight inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 190, discusses the readymade.
Jean-Hubert Martin inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 122, 233, fig. 150.
Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 55, fig. 59.
George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, pp. 136, 153, discusses the readymade.
Lauren Schell Dickens in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum. New York, 2009, p. 179, discusses the readymade.
Merry A. Foresta in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 112, discusses the readymade.
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. 71, 129, 302, 315 n. 14. colorpl. 82.
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.
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