the artist (1972–d. 1976); his widow, Juliet Man Ray (1976–d. 1991); Man Ray Trust (1991–2014; sale, Sotheby’s, Paris, November 15, 2014, no. 99, sold to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2014)
Marcel Jean. The History of Surrealist Painting. 2nd ed. (French ed., 1959). New York, 1960, p. 251, calls it "What We All Need".
Jules Langsner. Man Ray. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lytton Gallery. [Los Angeles], 1966, ill. p. 136 (1963 replica of 1935 original; Galleria Schwarz, Milan collection).
Man Ray. Oggetti d'Affezione. Turin, 1970, no. 32, ill. p. 75 (1935 edition).
Janus. Man Ray. Milan, 1973, p. 30, pl. 40 (1935/1953 edition, Galleria Schwarz, Milan collection).
Lara Vinca Masini. Man Ray. Florence, 1974, colorpl. 27 (1935/1953 edition, Galleria Schwarz, Milan collection).
Roland Penrose. Man Ray. Boston, 1975, pp. 190, 206, fig. 125 (1935 edition, Marcel Zerbib, Paris collection).
Dino Pedriali. Man Ray: Les Heures Heureuses. Rome, [1976], p. 45.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 132, 209–10, 370, fig. 341 (1935–36 edition, Vera and Arturo Schwarz, Milan collection), calls it "What We All Lack (Ce qui nous manque à tous)".
Jean-Hubert Martin. Man Ray: Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, pp. 143–44, no. 39, ill. p. 42 (unknown edition), discusses the 1927, 1935, and 1962 editions.
Rosalind Krauss. "Objets de Réflexion Critique." Man Ray: Objets de mon affection. Paris, 1983, p. 10.
Stephen C. Foster inPerpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 255–56, fig. 216 (1936 edition; destroyed; photograph by the artist).
Man Ray. Self Portrait. 2nd ed. [1st ed. 1963]. Boston, 1988, p. 253.
Neil Baldwin. Man Ray: American Artist. New York, 1988, pp. 194–95, 325–26.
Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: '360 degrés de libertés'. Exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, [1989], ill. p. 23 (color; 1935/1969 edition).
Philippe Godoy inMan Ray: Cent'anni di libertà, 1890–1990. Exh. cat., Palazzo Fortuny, Venice. Paris, 1990, p. 130, ill. p. 22 (color; 1935/1969 edition).
Marion Meyer inMan Ray et ses amis. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1991, p. 137, no. 85, ill. p. 60 (color; 1935/1969 edition, Galerie Marion Meyer collection), dates it 1969 (1935).
Man Ray: seitan 100-nen kinen. Exh. cat., Sezon Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1991, p. 18, no. 0-12.
Daniela Palazzoli. Man Ray: La Costruzione dei Sensi. Exh. cat., Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino. [Milan], 1995, p. 184.
Gilbert Perlein. Man Ray: Retrospective 1912–1976. Exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain. Nice, 1997, p. 194.
Emmanuel Guigon inEl Objeto Surrealista. Exh. cat., IVAM Centre Julio González. [Valencia], 1997, ill. p. 143 (1935/1953 edition, Lucien Treillard collection), calls it "Ce qui vous manque à tous".
Marion Meyer and Kunio Iwaya. Man Ray: I Am an Enigma. Exh. cat., Fukui Fine Arts Museum. [Tokyo], 2004, p. 256, no. 275, ill. p. 182 (color; 1927/1962 edition, private collection).
Katie Croll-Knight inDuchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 199, 204.
Mason Klein in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 17, fig. 18 (color; 1971–72 edition, private collection, courtesy Timothy Baum, New York).
Annelie Tuveros inMan Ray. Exh. cat., Mjellby Konstmuseum. Halmstad, 2013, pp. 34, 176, 216, ill. p. 36 (color; 1935/1963 edition, Penrose Collection).
Sidsel Maria Søndergaard inMan Ray. Exh. cat., Mjellby Konstmuseum. Halmstad, 2013, pp. 132–33, 135 n. 50, pp. 189, 192 n. 50.
Adina Kamien-Karzhdan. Remaking the Readymade: Duchamp, Man Ray, and the Conundrum of the Replica. London, 2018, pp. 116, 205–6, fig. 4.2 (1936 edition, Israel Museum, Jerusalem collection), dates it 1936.
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. 295.
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. 241, 306, colorpl. 162.
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