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Champs délicieux (Delicious Fields)

Man Ray American
1922
Not on view
Advertised as “photographic originals,” the images in Champs délicieux are, in fact, reproductions of rayographs that Man Ray made during his first months working with the technique. He photographed the rayographs and then made prints from the negatives. Man Ray declared that the “originals” would be canceled after the completion of the forty albums, as with a traditional print portfolio.

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Object Information
  • Title: Champs délicieux (Delicious Fields)
  • Artist: Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris)
  • Printer: Société Générale d’Imprimerie et d’Edition, Paris
  • Date: 1922
  • Medium: Portfolio of twelve gelatin silver prints with preface by Tristan Tzara
  • Edition: 20/40
  • Dimensions: Print 1: 8 3⁄4 × 6 3⁄4 in. (22.2 × 17.2 cm);
    Print 2: 8 9⁄16 × 6 11⁄16 in. (21.8 × 17 cm);
    Print 3: 8 3⁄4 × 6 7⁄8 in. (22.3 × 17.4 cm);
    Print 4: 8 3⁄4 × 6 11⁄16 in. (22.3 × 17 cm);
    Print 5: 8 13⁄16 × 6 13⁄16 in. (22.4 × 17.3 cm);
    Print 6: 8 15⁄16 × 6 7⁄8 in. (22.7 × 17.4 cm);
    Print 7: 8 3⁄4 × 6 3⁄4 in. (22.2 × 17.1 cm);
    Print 8: 8 7⁄8 × 6 3⁄4 in. (22.6 × 17.2 cm);
    Print 9: 8 7⁄8 × 6 5⁄8 in. (22.5 × 16.8 cm);
    Print 10: 8 13⁄16 × 6 15⁄16 in. (22.4 × 17.6 cm);
    Print 11: 8 7⁄8 × 6 3⁄4 in. (22.6 × 17.1 cm);
    Print 12: 8 3⁄4 × 6 3⁄4 in. (22.2 × 17.2 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Bluff Collection, Promised Gift of John A. Pritzker
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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