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Man Ray
Objet indestructible, 1923/65.
Multiple. Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
146
Man Ray
Objet indestructible, 1923/65.
Multiple. Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Man Ray
1890 - 1976
Objet indestructible. 1923/65.
Multiple. Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In an original black-lacquered wooden case.
Signed and numbered on an edition label on the reverse. With a metal plate on the removable cap of the metronome, bearing the title and the date in typography. Copy 31/100. Height: 22 cm (8.6 in). Original wooden case: 23,8 x 13,4 x 13,2 cm (9,3 x 5,2 x 5,1 in).
Executed in 1965 after the original object from1923/30. Published by Edition MAT (Multiplication d'Art Transformable), Paris. [AW].
• “Objet indestructible” combines Man Ray’s central artistic approaches: the readymade and photography.
• Man Ray uses the eye of his lover and muse, the famous photographer Lee Miller.
• With a deliberate blow of a hammer, the artist destroys the original object “Objet à détruire”—the new edition is created in 1965 and renamed in reference to his reconciliation with Lee Miller.
• In the same family collection for nearly 60 years.
• Another copy of this edition is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Onnasch, Berlin.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1969, family-owned ever since).
LITERATURE: Jean-Hubert Martin, Brigitte Hermann, Rosalind Krauss, Man Ray. Objets de mon affection, Paris 1983, CR no. 31.
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Meredith Malone, Sam Adams, Molly Mood et. al., Multiplied: Edition MAT and the transformable work of art, 1959-1965, Washington 2020, p. 177.
Called up: June 13, 2026 - ca. 14.01 h +/- 20 min.
1890 - 1976
Objet indestructible. 1923/65.
Multiple. Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In an original black-lacquered wooden case.
Signed and numbered on an edition label on the reverse. With a metal plate on the removable cap of the metronome, bearing the title and the date in typography. Copy 31/100. Height: 22 cm (8.6 in). Original wooden case: 23,8 x 13,4 x 13,2 cm (9,3 x 5,2 x 5,1 in).
Executed in 1965 after the original object from1923/30. Published by Edition MAT (Multiplication d'Art Transformable), Paris. [AW].
• “Objet indestructible” combines Man Ray’s central artistic approaches: the readymade and photography.
• Man Ray uses the eye of his lover and muse, the famous photographer Lee Miller.
• With a deliberate blow of a hammer, the artist destroys the original object “Objet à détruire”—the new edition is created in 1965 and renamed in reference to his reconciliation with Lee Miller.
• In the same family collection for nearly 60 years.
• Another copy of this edition is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Onnasch, Berlin.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1969, family-owned ever since).
LITERATURE: Jean-Hubert Martin, Brigitte Hermann, Rosalind Krauss, Man Ray. Objets de mon affection, Paris 1983, CR no. 31.
- -
Meredith Malone, Sam Adams, Molly Mood et. al., Multiplied: Edition MAT and the transformable work of art, 1959-1965, Washington 2020, p. 177.
Called up: June 13, 2026 - ca. 14.01 h +/- 20 min.
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Man Ray "Objet indestructible"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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