

5
Man Ray
L'Étoile de verre (Glass Star)
- Estimate
- £10,000 - 15,000♠
Lot Details
Glittering paste gem (diamond-cut fragments of glass) and chalk on dark brown sandpaper, mounted on white painted museum board (as issued),
1965
sandpaper sheet: 18 x 28 cm (7 x 11 in.)
mount size: 24 x 33 cm (9 1/2 x 13 in.)
mount size: 24 x 33 cm (9 1/2 x 13 in.)
signed and numbered 10/10 in pencil, from the first edition (there were three editions of 10 examples each), also titled in black ink on the reverse by another hand, in very good condition, in orignal artist's made wooden frame.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The title L'Étoile de verre is a double play on words, rhyming with papier de verre (sandpaper) and etoile de mer (starfish), the latter being the title of Man Ray's third film made in 1928.
Provenance
Exhibited
Literature