Raoul Ubac - The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection New York Tuesday, October 4, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Prakapas Gallery, New York

  • Catalogue Essay

    Raoul Ubac was a Belgian photographer, painter and sculptor, active in the Surrealist movement in Paris in the 1930s. His interest in the movement was spurred by his reading the French writer André Breton’s Manifeste du surréalism in 1924, which championed the unleashing of the subconscious, along with the relinquishing of control and reason in the production of art— visual, literary, or otherwise. The process of solarization, perfected by one of Ubac’s strongest sources of inspiration, Man Ray, mirrors the subversive underpinnings of the movement, reversing the tonality and producing a dreamlike effect of an otherwise straightforward image, as seen in the current lot.

THE ARC OF PHOTOGRAPHY: A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

231

Agui

1940
Solarized gelatin silver print.
11 3/4 x 9 in. (29.8 x 22.9 cm).
Initialed 'RU' and dated '40' in ink on the recto.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

The Arc of Photography: A Private East Coast Collection

4 October 2011 6PM
New York