MAN RAY Portrait of George Platt Lynes

Sale 1925 - Lot 49

Unsold

Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 25,000

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Portrait of George Platt Lynes. Silver print, 7x4½ inches, with Man Ray's outlining, in black ink, on recto and his hand stamp, on verso. Circa 1927

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A rare and early portrait of a young George Platt Lynes, taken at the time that he first met Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott. Mrs. Mary Barnwell, a wealthy American banker's wife who was studying art in Paris, met the handsome Lynes and requested that he be the model for her garden sculpture. Realizing a possible romantic interest, Lynes politely refused. He eventually compromised by agreeing to let Man Ray photograph him in his studio from various angles for her reference. Man Ray, taking advantage of the situation, utilized his own props and composed his own work of art. By sketching a box over Lynes's torso, he further abstracts and flattens the image as well as creates a contrast between the rigid ruled lines of the superimposition and the delicate asymmetrical shadings of the torso.<