Four centuries lie between the eye on the tile and this witness and this calls to mind a statement made by Man Ray in 1948 in 'Some Papers': 'Art is not a science. Art is not an experiment. There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in courtship. There are merely different ways of doing it'.
Specifications
| Title | Le témoin |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Wood, cardboard, paper, paint, chalk, pencil and adhesive tape |
| Object type |
Sculpture
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is travelling |
| Dimensions |
Height 15,4 cm Width 29,8 cm Depth 29,8 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Kunstenaar:
Man Ray
|
| Accession number | BEK 1481 a-b (MK) |
| Credits | Schenking kunstenaar / Donation artist: Man Ray 1971 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1971 |
| Creation date | in 1941 (1971) |
| Age artist | About 51 years old |
| Entitled parties | © Man Ray Trust / ADAGP, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2018 |
| Provenance | Artist’s collection |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam/Paris/Humlebaek 1971-72; Paris 1972; Rotterdam 1996a; Drachten 1998; Rotterdam 2013b; Rotterdam 2014b; Rotterdam 2017b |
| Research |
Digitising Contemporary Art A dream collection - Surrealism in Museum Boijmans Van beuningen |
| Literature | Rotterdam/Paris/Humlebaek 1971-72, p. 158, cat. no. 216, fig. p. 96; Schwarz 1977, p. 153, fig. 241; Man Ray/Martin 1983, p. 149, cat. no. 68 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The United States of America > North America > America |
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