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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Currently at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (États-Unis)
as part of Man Ray : When Objects Dream, 15 June 2018 - 01 January 2030
See on the Centre Pompidou's loan map in France and worldwide
Detailed description
| Artist |
Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, dit)
(1890, États-Unis - 1976, France) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
