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L’ange Heurtebise

L’ange Heurtebise

Artist Man Ray American, 1890-1976
Publisher Librairie Stock, Paris, 1925
Printer photogravure: Dujardin, Paris text: l’Imprimerie Kapp, Vanves
Author Jean Cocteau French, 1889-1963
Date1925
DimensionsBook: H: 15 in. (381 mm); W: 11 1/4 in. (285 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (9 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 14 15/16 in. (380 mm); W: 11 in. (280 mm).
MediumReproduction: photogravure reproduction of a photograph (rayogram). Text: letterpress (typeface: Didot Bold). Paper: Arches cream wove.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.355
Not on View
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Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Dada dada DaDa, Feb. 2 - Apr. 2, 2001, (photogravure and title page).

Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.

Label TextThe photogravure frontispiece by Man Ray is his creative visualization, by the photogram (or rayogram) technique, of an angel, which is the subject of Cocteau's poem.

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