Inscription: Signed (lower right, in ink): Man / Ray; inscribed (verso, in pencil): 4 [circled] / Nu 1925 / Return photo / Nude / Renvoyez cette photo s.v.p
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)
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, unnumbered cat. (fig. 266; as "Kiki," ca. 1923).
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. 210D; 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.
René Crevel. "Le Sommeil: Je ne sais pas découper." La Révolution Surréaliste 1, no. 2 (January 15, 1925), ill. p. 26.
Jean Adhémar and Evelyne Pasquet. Man Ray: Exposition de l'oeuvre photographique. Exh. cat., Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, 1962, p. 9, no. 26.
Roger Shattuck inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, p. 323, fig. 266.
Kirsten Hoving Powell. "'Le Violon d'Ingres': Man Ray's Variations on Ingres, Deformation, Desire and de Sade." Art History 23 (December 2000), p. 780, pl. 63, calls it "Untitled" and dates it 1925.
Quentin Bajac inLa 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, fig. 79 (reproduces Ref. Crevel 1925), colorpl. 140.
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