Provenance: Private Collection, The Netherlands. There is only one other copy (in private collection) of the real photo postcard known, which was exhibited as a part of the exhibition Dadaglobe Reconstructed in the MoMA, 2016.
The sculpture in the postcard is Little French Girl, ca. 1914-1918, which is in the Guggenheim's collection. The sculpture was previously owned by Katherine S. Dreier who was a co-founder of the Société Anonyme. Purchased directly from Brancusi, she included it in the inaugural exhibition of the Société Anonyme, America's first "experimental museum" for modern art. Man Ray's duties as vice president of the organization centered upon publicity. He designed the Société Anonyme's banner, and also photographed Dreier's private art collection, as well as works on exhibit, which were then made into postcards for sale.
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America (Yale University Press, 2016)
For additional images please follow the link below: http://www.swanngalleries.com/ms/Sale2627/lot197
