Danger/Dancer
1917 - 1920

Danger/Dancer
1917 - 1920
With a difference of just one letter, this painting on glass plays with the similarity between "Dancer" and "Danger".
A show presenting a Spanish dancer inspired Man Ray for this representation painted with an airbrush. Close to the great erotic mechanisms designed by Marcel Duchamp for La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires [The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors] (1915-1923), this “Little glass” (also broken by accident iin 1968) was exhibited by Katherine S. Dreier in the Société Anonyme galleries in New York in 1920, and the following year in a Dada context in the Six bookshop in Paris, before being acquired by André Breton who kept it throughout his life.
Domain | Oeuvre en 3 dimensions |
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Techniques | Peinture à l'aérographe sur verre dans un encadrement en bois |
Dimensions | 60,8 x 35,2 x 2 cm |
Acquisition | Don de Mmes Aube Breton-Elléouët et Oona Elléouët, 2003 |
Inventory no. | AM 2003-581 |
Detailed description
Artist |
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, dit)
(1890, États-Unis - 1976, République française) |
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Main title | Danger/Dancer |
Former title | L'Impossibilité |
Creation date | 1917 - 1920 |
Domain | Oeuvre en 3 dimensions |
Techniques | Peinture à l'aérographe sur verre dans un encadrement en bois |
Dimensions | 60,8 x 35,2 x 2 cm |
Inscriptions | S.D.INDIC.B.G. : [gravé dans la peinture] man Ray n. y. 20 |
Notes | Oeuvre brisée en 1968 |
Acquisition | Don de Mmes Aube Breton-Elléouët et Oona Elléouët, 2003 |
Collection area | Arts Plastiques - Moderne |
Inventory no. | AM 2003-581 |