Folio
1975 · Paris
by MAN RAY (b. Emmanuel Radnitzky, 1890-1976); MILLER, Henry (1891-1980)
Paris: Luciano Anselmino, 1975. Folio. Box: (21 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches). Sheet of Man Ray print: (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches). Image of Man Ray print: (15 x 13 1/2 inches). Blue cloth clamshell document box with inset printed panels containing unpaginated pp. 26 signed Henry Miller text titled "La Logique Assassine" in seven gatherings with a colophon numbered 75; a Man Ray lithograph printed in black titled La Logique Assassine signed "MR" in pencil and numbered; a felt, twine, foam, and paper multiple sculpture by Man Ray with a wax seal titled Enigme III without Plexiglas. Numbered 75 out of 100 copies. 120 copies total: 100 numbered 1-100, 20 hors commerce numbered I-XX. An original Man Ray sculpture in multiple titled "Engime III," accompanied by a signed text about the artist by Henry Miller, with a re-struck print from Man Ray's early career.
From Henry Miller's otherwise unpublished essay "La Logique Assassine: Man Ray": "[Man Ray] believed in life, which involves continuous creation. If he acknowledged no god, no master, no comforter, it was because for him life itself provided these elements. Such is the impression he gave me, whether true or false." Miller's essay regales the reader with the tale of his introduction to Man Ray. Like the essay, the box-set carries with it a retrospective feeling. Published the year prior to Man Ray's death, it situates Man Ray and his work in conversation with artists (and a writer) he knew and admired. The Man Ray print La Logique Assassine laid into Miller's essay was initially made in 1919 and was re-struck and reissued here. The Warhol screenprint on the box is a portrait of Man Ray. In the 1970s Warhol regularly accepted commissions to paint portraits of the cultural and financial elite. But he also made a number of portraits of people he admired, especially those of other artists. Man Ray was one of Warhol's idols; he owned several Man Ray photographs, paintings, and books. This image is from a Polaroid photograph Warhol took of Man Ray, cigar in mouth, in 1973.
Feldman and Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, pp. 90, no. 148. (Inventory #: 41124)
From Henry Miller's otherwise unpublished essay "La Logique Assassine: Man Ray": "[Man Ray] believed in life, which involves continuous creation. If he acknowledged no god, no master, no comforter, it was because for him life itself provided these elements. Such is the impression he gave me, whether true or false." Miller's essay regales the reader with the tale of his introduction to Man Ray. Like the essay, the box-set carries with it a retrospective feeling. Published the year prior to Man Ray's death, it situates Man Ray and his work in conversation with artists (and a writer) he knew and admired. The Man Ray print La Logique Assassine laid into Miller's essay was initially made in 1919 and was re-struck and reissued here. The Warhol screenprint on the box is a portrait of Man Ray. In the 1970s Warhol regularly accepted commissions to paint portraits of the cultural and financial elite. But he also made a number of portraits of people he admired, especially those of other artists. Man Ray was one of Warhol's idols; he owned several Man Ray photographs, paintings, and books. This image is from a Polaroid photograph Warhol took of Man Ray, cigar in mouth, in 1973.
Feldman and Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints, Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, pp. 90, no. 148. (Inventory #: 41124)