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
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height Error: 15,4 is not a valid BCD value cm Width Error: 29,8 is not a valid BCD value cm Depth Error: 29,8 is not a valid BCD value cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Man Ray
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| Accession number | BEK 1481 a-b (MK) |
| Credits | Gift artist, 1971 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1971 |
| Creation date | in 1941 (1971) |
| 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 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Een prikkelcollectie (2000) De verlengde blik / The extended view (2013) Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray - Framing Sculpture (2014) Collectie - surrealisme (2017) |
| External exhibitions |
Surrealist Art - Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) Only the Marvelous is Beautiful (2022) Man Ray (2018) Dal nulla al sogno (2018) A Surreal Shock – Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) Dalí, Magritte, Man Ray and Surrealism. Highlights from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2023) A Surreal Shock. Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2023) |
| Research |
Show research Digitising Contemporary Art Show research 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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