Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000304
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126000304
Man Ray
Objet indestructible, 1923/65.
Multiple. Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000304
Man Ray
Objet indestructible, 1923/65.
Multiple. Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In...
Estimate:
€ 20,000 - 30,000
$ 23,400 - 35,100
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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.
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.
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