Inscription: Signed (lower right): Man Ray; inscribed (verso, in pencil): Top; (verso, center): 3[6 erased]4 photos miscel [sideways]; inscribed and dated (verso, near bottom right): “Glass Tears” / ca. 1930
the artist (until at least 1962; to Baum); Timothy Baum, New York; [Noah Goldowsky Gallery]; Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (by 1985–at least 1989); [Pace/MacGill, New York, until 1999; sold in 1999 to Pritzker]; John A. Pritzker (from 1999)
Paris. Bibliotheque Nationale. "Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique," 1962, no. 40 (as "Glass tears," ca. 1930).
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism," September 14–November 17, 1985, unnumbered cat. (fig. 107; as "Tears (Larmes)," ca. 1930, lent by the Jedermann Collection, N. A.).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Art of Photography 1839–1989," February 11–April 30, 1989, no. 247 (as "Glass Tears (Larmes)," c. 1930, lent by the Jedermann Collection, N.A.).
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Art of Photography 1839–1989," September 23–December 23, 1989, no. 247.
New York. Pace/MacGill Gallery. "Man Ray: Important Vintage Photographs," October 28–November 27, 1999, no catalogue.
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. "La Subversion des Images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film," September 23, 2009–January 11, 2010, unnumbered cat. (p. 413; as "Larmes," ca. 1933, lent by a private collection).
Fotomuseum Winterthur. "Subversion der Bilder–Surrealismus, Fotografie und Film," February 27–May 23, 2010, unnumbered cat.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Man Ray / Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism," July 14–October 14, 2012, not in catalogue.
Fiat: Revue Bimestrielle (October 1934), ill. n.p. (advertisement for Arlette Bernard cosmetics).
Jean Adhémar and Evelyne Pasquet. Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique. Exh. cat., Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, 1962, p. 11, no. 40.
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, p. 204, fig. 179, ill. front cover (unknown edition), calls it "Larmes (Glass Tears)".
Shirley Read and Jacqueline Goddard inMan Ray. Exh. cat., Serpentine Gallery. London, 1995, unpaginated, ill., call it "Larmes" and date it 1933.
Katherine Ware. "Plates." Man Ray: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 1998, pp. 56, 72, pl. 25 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles edition), calls it "Larmes" and dates it 1930–32.
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Alain Sayag, ed. Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1998, pp. 107, 246.
Lucien Treillard and Musée National d'Art Moderne inMan Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. Paris, 1998, p. 241.
Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais inMan Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, p. 256, ill. p. 179 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles edition), calls it "Les Larmes" and dates it 1932.
Wendy A. Grossman and Steven Manford. "Unmasking Man Ray's 'Noire et blanche'." American Art 20, no. 2 (Summer 2006), p. 139, calls it "Larmes (Glass Tears)".
Francis M. Naumann inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 68–69, calls it "Glass Tears" and dates it early 1930s.
Emmanuelle Etchecopar-Etchart inLa Subversion des images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. Paris, 2009, pp. 448, 470, ill. pp. 412 (reproduces Ref. Fiat Revue Bimestrielle 1934), 413 (overall).
Erin C. Garcia. Man Ray in Paris. Los Angeles, 2011, pp. 72, 104, 125, colorpl. 43 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles edition), calls it "Larmes (Tears)" and dates it 1930–32.
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. 220, 305, 322 n. 16, colorpl. 144.
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