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Man Ray’s Le violon d’Ingres<\/p><\/div>\n

I took an art history elective in high school, and that\u2019s where I saw Man Ray\u2019s work for the first time. It was his 1921 readymade sculpture <\/span>The Gift<\/span><\/i><\/a>, consisting of thumbtacks glued to the bottom of a flatiron. I chuckled when I saw it. He took an ordinary, everyday object and made it completely useless. It\u2019s not unlike M\u00e9ret Oppenheim\u2019s <\/span>D\u00e9jeuner en fourrure<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a fur-covered teacup, saucer, and spoon. Ray has always been one of the most recognizable names in Dada or Surrealism, and now one of his works is predicted to become the most valuable photograph in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

This May, Christie\u2019s will auction The Rosalind Gersten Jacobs & Melvin Jacobs Collection<\/span>, held in high regard as one of the world\u2019s most well-known private collections of Surrealist and Abstract works. The Man Ray photograph <\/span>Le violon d\u2019Ingres<\/span><\/i><\/a> has grabbed the most attention after Christie\u2019s specialists estimated it to fetch as much as $7 million. <\/span>Le violon d\u2019Ingres<\/span><\/i> will set an auction record for a photograph if the photo reaches the specialists’ estimate. Currently, the most valuable photograph ever sold at auction is<\/span> Rhein II<\/span><\/i><\/a> by the German photographer Andreas Gursky, which brought in $3.8 million (or $4.3 million w\/p) at a 2011 Christie\u2019s sale.<\/span><\/p>\n

The photo shows the nude back of Ray\u2019s lover Kiki de Montparnasse made to look like the body of a violin with f-holes inserted using then-revolutionary darkroom techniques. Ray kept the original print until 1962 until he sold it to the Jacobs family. Based on the title, Ray took inspiration from the nineteenth-century French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres<\/a>, particularly his use of the nude female form. Ingres most famously used the female nude in his <\/span>Grande Odalisque<\/span><\/i><\/a>, but Ray took his inspiration from <\/span>La Grande Baigneuse<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>also known as The Valpin\u00e7on Bather<\/em>. But the photo has another meaning known only to those who speak French. The title is also a take on the French phrase <\/span>violon d\u2019Ingres<\/span><\/i>, or Ingres\u2019s violin, a euphemism for a hobby or pastime, named after the painter\u2019s love of the instrument.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if the Man Ray photo underperforms, there\u2019s no doubt that the sale will do well. While Christie\u2019s has not released the complete sale catalog, press releases indicate that works by Ren\u00e9 Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, and Vija Celmins are also part of the Jacobs collection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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