Irish actor Frank Bourke played Man Ray in the Belgian television series This Is Not a Murder Mystery
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Man Ray
Man Ray was an American-born, French-naturalized visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was a photography innovator as well as a fashion and portrait photographer, and is noted for…
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culture · American and French visual artist (1890–1976) · film director · photographer · cinematographer · screenwriter · painter · film editor · collagist · autobiographer · actor · designer · also Man Ray, Man Rei, hola Denise de 1_A no es confidencial soy yo, Emmanuel Rudnitzky, Emmanuel Radnitzky, Emmanuel Rudnizky
Born 27 August 1890 · Died 18 November 1976 · Q46139
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2022· 1 entry
Setting a new world record as the most expensive photograph ever to be sold at auction
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2017· 2 entries
His assemblage titled Catherine Barometer (1920), sold for $3,252,500 at Christie's in New York
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Man Ray's Noire et Blanche (1926), formerly in the collection of Jacques Doucet, was purchased at Christie's Paris for €2,688,750 (US$3,120,658), becoming (at that time) the 14th most expensive photograph to ever sell at
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2015· 1 entry
Used another photo of Ray's; 'Plume', depicting a feather, for the cover of 'Affection', one of their singles
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2013· 1 entry
At the Sotheby's New York Impressionist & Modern Art Sale
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2012· 1 entry
American dream pop band Cigarettes After Sex used Man Ray's 1930 photograph 'Anatomies' as the cover for their EP 'I
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1999· 1 entry
ARTnews magazine named Man Ray one of the 25 most influential artists of the 20th century
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1976· 6 entries
Died 1976-11-18.
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“unconcerned but not indifferent”
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“Variant: I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”
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“I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.”
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“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how", while others of a more curious nature will ask "why". Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”
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“All critics should be assassinated.”
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1974· 1 entry
Man Ray received the Royal Photographic Society's Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship "in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution which has resulted in an important advance in the sci
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1973· 1 entry
“Originals Graphics Multiples”
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
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1963· 1 entry
Published his autobiography, Self-Portrait (republished in 1999)
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1951· 1 entry
And settled with Juliet into a studio at 2 bis rue Férou near the Jardin du Luxembourg, where he continued his creative practice across mediums
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1948· 1 entry
Ray had a solo exhibition at the Copley Galleries in Beverly Hills, which brought together a wide array of work and featured his newly painted canvases of the Shakespearean Equations series
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1946· 1 entry
In a double wedding with their friends Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning; Browner took the name "Juliet Man Ray"
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1941· 1 entry
Its collection was donated to the Yale University Art Gallery
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1929· 1 entry
Began a love affair with the Surrealist photographer Lee Miller
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1920· 1 entry
Man Ray helped Duchamp make his Rotary Glass Plates, one of the earliest examples of kinetic art
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1918· 1 entry
After initially picking up the camera to document his own artwork
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1915· 1 entry
Man Ray had his first solo show of paintings and drawings after taking up residence at an art colony in Grantwood, New Jersey
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1914· 1 entry
Separated in 1919, and formally divorced in 1937
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1913· 1 entry
Man Ray met his first wife, the Belgian poet Adon Lacroix (Donna Lecoeur) (1887–1975), in New York
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1897· 1 entry
Shortly after they settled at 372 Debevoise St
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-08-27.
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