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Photograph
Hildegarde Watson
Man Ray, 1890 - 1976
Ray, Man
United States
1890 - 1976
Male
9 15/16 x 8 in. (25.2 x 20.3 cm)
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Gelatin silver print
Gelatin silver print
ca. 1925
1920
1930
Photograph
Man Ray was the only American who was intimately tied to the Surrealist group in Paris. During the 1920s, his photographic portraits were highly sought after, by the bohemian crowd as well as the social elite. Thwarting expectations causes a sense of tension that was one of the aims of the Surrealists; here, the inclusion of the mannequin arm is intended to disturb and disorient the viewer. Man Ray used the false arm in another portrait in 1932, that of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
The subject here is Hildegarde Watson, daughter-in-law of the museum’s founder. She was a philanthropist, singer, painter, writer, photographer, and active preservationist.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
below image, Appears to be written over another signature in image area, possibly in negative?
1982.46
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
82.46SL1
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82.46DI#2
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10/1/2012
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