Man Ray used a cast of a classical sculpture to create a new work. The torso is a fragment and the 'restoration' from the title is ambiguous. Man Ray has not added the missing limbs and the head, but has laced up the torso with rope as a strange variant of a corset. This sculpture is an by the artist authorised reconstruction of the original art work.
Specifications
| Title | Vénus restaurée |
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| Material and technique | Plaster, rope, wood, paint |
| Object type |
Sculpture
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 74 cm Width 42 cm Diameter 39 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Man Ray
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| Accession number | BEK 1502 (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1972 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1972 |
| Creation date | in 1936 (1971) |
| Entitled parties | © Man Ray Trust / ADAGP, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2018 |
| Provenance | Artist’s collection |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam/Paris/Humlebaek 1971-72; Antwerp 1994; London 1995; Rotterdam 1996a; Drachten 1998; Paris/Düsseldorf 2002; London/Rotterdam/Bilbao 2007-08; Rotterdam 2014b; Copenhagen 2015; Rotterdam 2017b |
| Internal exhibitions |
The Collection Enriched (2011) Brancusi, Rosso, Man Ray - Framing Sculpture (2014) Collectie - surrealisme (2017) Lievelingen (2024) |
| External exhibitions |
Dal nulla al sogno (2018) Surrealist Art - Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) A Surreal Shock – Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) Only the Marvelous is Beautiful (2022) Humor - 101 jaar lachen om kunst (2017) Man Ray (2018) 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. 148, cat. no. 162, fig. p. 79; Schwarz 1977, p. 188, fig. 288; Man Ray/Martin 1983, p. 149, cat. no. 58; Man Ray/J. Man Ray/Foresta 1988, p. 315; Antwerp 1994, cat. no. 375; Drachten 1998, cat. no. 22; Rotterdam 2007, p. 88; London 2008, p. 131; Kamien-Kazhdan 2012, p. 109; Rotterdam 2014, pp. 230-31, cat. no. 50 |
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| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The United States of America > North America > America |
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Man Ray
Philadelphia 1890 - Parijs 1976
The American artist Emmanuel Radnitzky, who would call himself Man Ray, began his career as engraver and advertising designer. In New York he got to know the...
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