Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right of mount, in pencil): Man Ray 1922
the artist (from 1922; to Levy); Julien Levy (until 1975; sold on June 20, 1975 to Jedermann); Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (1975–2006; sold in 2006 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2006)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "The Art of Photography 1839–1989," February 11–April 30, 1989, not in catalogue.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "The Art of Photography 1839–1989," September 23–December 23, 1989, not in catalogue.
Antwerp. Ronny Van de Velde. "Man Ray 1890–1976," September 18–December 18, 1994, no. 295 (as "Rayograph (Film Strip and Gyroscope)," lent by a private collection).
London. Serpentine Gallery. "Man Ray," January 8–March 12, 1995, unnumbered cat. (as "Rayograph (Film-strip and Gyroscope)," lent by a private collection, USA).
New York. Pace/MacGill Gallery. "Man Ray: Important Vintage Photographs," October 28–November 27, 1999, no catalogue.
San Francisco. Fraenkel Gallery. "Man Ray: Fifteen Photographs," December 2, 1999–January 29, 2000, no catalogue.
New York. Jewish Museum. "Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention," November 15, 2009–March 14, 2010, unnumbered cat. (fig. 37; as "Rayograph (gyroscope & film)," lent by The Bluff Collection LP).
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Man Ray / Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism," July 14–October 14, 2012, not in catalogue.
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," February 7–May 10, 2015, unnumbered cat. (fig. 99; as "Rayograph (Gyroscope and Film)," lent by The Bluff Collection).
Copenhagen. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," June 11–September 20, 2015, unnumbered cat.
Jerusalem. Israel Museum. "Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare," October 20, 2015–January 23, 2016, unnumbered cat.
Nathan Lyons. Photography in the Twentieth Century. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada. Rochester, N.Y., 1967, ill. p. 16, dates it 1921–28.
Tristan Tzara. Man Ray: 40 Rayographies. Exh. cat., Galerie des 4 Mouvements. Paris, 1972, unpaginated, no. 1, ill. (unknown edition), dates it 1921.
Brigitte Hermann and Jean-Hubert Martin inMan Ray: Photographe. Exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1981, p. 131, no. 168, ill. p. 144 (not this edition), date it 1921.
Alexandre Castant. Noire et blanche de Man Ray. Paris, 2003, ill. p. 9, dates it 1923.
Wendy A. Grossman inMan Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare. Ed. Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Ostfildern, 2015, pp. 125, 226, fig. 99 (color).
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. 92, 301, colorpl. 59.
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