Kiki de Montparnasse

Inscription: Signed (lower right, in pencil): Man Ray; inscribed (verso, in pencil): 2 [circled] / 1925

Marking: Stamped (verso): MAN RAY / 31 bis, Rue / Campagne / Première / PARIS

the artist (1924–70; in 1970 to Crane); Arnold Crane, Chicago (1970–2007; sold in 2007 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2007)

Paris. Bibliotheque Nationale. "Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique," 1962, no. 26 (dated 1925).

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.

Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray," December 2, 1988–February 20, 1989, not in catalogue.

Princeton University Art Museum. July 3–October 22, 2007 (on view in the permanent collection galleries).

London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 210B; as "Demain (Nude Kiki)," 1923, lent by The Bluff Collection LP).

Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. "La Subversion des Images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film," September 23, 2009–January 11, 2010, unnumbered cat. (p. 373; as "Kiki de Montparnasse (Nu)," lent by The Bluff Collection LP).

Fotomuseum Winterthur. "Subversion der Bilder–Surrealismus, Fotografie und Film," February 27–May 23, 2010, unnumbered cat.

Jean Adhémar and Evelyne Pasquet. Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique. Exh. cat., Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, 1962, p. 9, no. 26.

Kirsten Hoving Powell. "'Le Violon d'Ingres': Man Ray's Variations on Ingres, Deformation, Desire and de Sade." Art History 23 (December 2000), pp. 779–80, pl. 62 (Centre Georges Pompidou edition), calls it "Untitled" and dates it 1923.

Quentin Bajac in La Subversion des Images. Surréalisme, Photographie, Film. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, Galerie 2. Paris, 2009, pp. 355, 469, ill. p. 373.

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. 218, 305, colorpl. 138.