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Man Ray’s ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’ sells for $12.4 million
In affirmation of a expanding desire in Surrealism, Male Ray’s photograph, “Le Violon d’Ingres,” brought in a whopping $12.4 million in excess of the weekend at Christie’s New York showroom, additional than $5 million more than the projected valuation. The piece is a portion of the assortment, “The Surrealist Earth of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs,” which collectively garnered just in excess of $42 million from the auction. Ray’s function confirmed up together with that of Rene Magritte, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning, and Marcel Duchamp, among the many others in the couple’s selection. The Jacobs made their title (and fortune) as successful trend merchants and befriended lots of Surrealists…
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Man Ray’s ‘Le Violon d’Ingres’ becomes the most expensive photo ever sold at auction
Penned by Toyin Owoseje, CNN This story was current with the final sale price tag and other facts pursuing the auction. Guy Ray’s famed “Le Violon d’Ingres” built heritage Saturday when it turned the most high priced photograph ever to sell at auction. The black and white image, taken in 1924 by the American surrealist artist, transforms a woman’s bare system into a violin by overlaying the photograph of her again with f-holes. The first print of the masterpiece, greatly regarded to be Guy Ray’s most well known perform, bought for $12.4 million, smashing sale estimates. Prior to the sale, it was expected to fetch in between $5-7 million, the…
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