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MAN RAY Promenade.
Color lithograph, 1968. 355x510 mm; 14x20 1/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 100. Signed and inscribed "E.A." in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression with strong colors.
Based on the Man Ray's (1890-1976) Première Promenade, watercolor, 1912 (now in the Indianapolis Museum of Art), made around the time the artist decided to abandon conventional painting to involve himself with Dada.
According to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, "This procession of cartoonish humanoids, some in fancy dress, dates to the beginning of the career of Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky). [Henri] Matisse was the apparent inspiration for Première Promenade, with his similarly vividly-colored, oddly-peopled canvases of 1906 and 1907, which Man Ray could have seen in photographic reproductions shown at [Alfred Stieglitz's gallery] 291 in 1910." Anselmino 44.
