May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
MAN RAY (1890-1976)
Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). 1930; printed 1960s.
Silver print, the image measuring 9½x6⅞ inches (24.1x17.5 cm.), with Man Ray's signature and the title and negative date in pencil on verso.

Provenance
Gift from the Artist to Charles-Henri Favrod, the founding director of Photo Elysée museum in Lausanne

Another print of this image is in the collection of the Tate Modern, London; a variant from the same sitting in the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris.