Self Portrait

Artist Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)

Date1932

Dimensions11 5/8 x 8 in. (29.5 x 20.3 cm)

MediumVintage solarized gelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1987.207

Not on View

Label TextMan Ray, known to have produced many self portraits, considered this image one of his most significant—so significant that he choose to include it in a 1934 publication of his best images. In the 1930s Man Ray did a series of solarized portraits of people he felt were particularly important—including writer André Breton and artists Marcel Duchamp, Méret Oppenheim, Lee Miller, and André Derain. He then did a solarized self portrait, placing himself in his own pantheon of great modern artists.Exhibition HistoryMenil Collection, Houston, Texas. 1988-90.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. 1988-90.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 1988-90.

Smithsonian American Art Museum (National Museum of Fine Arts), Washington, D.C. 1988-90.

Toledo Museum of Art, Framing Fame: 19th- & 20th-century Celebrity Photography, March 4–June 4, 2017.