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The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY
The Misunderstood (Lithograph) -  MAN RAY

MAN RAY


The Misunderstood

Lithograph, 1962

Edition : 35/90

Catalog : [Anselmino 39]

65.50 cm. x 50.00 cm. | 25.79 in. x 19.69 in. (paper)

60.00 cm. x 46.00 cm. | 23.62 in. x 18.11 in. (image)

Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Certificate of authenticity
Very good condition

After an oil painting of 1938

A major figure of Surrealism, Man Ray conceived the original painting of The Misunderstood in 1938, at a time marked by the rise of Nazism, Fascism, and the condemnation of modern art as “degenerate” in Germany. Of Ashkenazi Jewish origin and closely associated with the Surrealist movement, he worked in a climate of political anxiety and uncertainty, shortly before his exile to the United States in 1940.

Reissued as a lithograph in 1962, the image retains the unsettling, dreamlike power of the original composition. The hybrid figure, inspired by the bird-of-paradise flower, becomes an enigmatic apparition, endowed with a single eye and an elongated beak, set within a silent and unreal landscape. Through its formal strangeness and its anxious, almost nightmarish atmosphere, the work fully embodies Man Ray’s Surrealist aesthetic, grounded in metamorphosis, the uncanny, and the poetry of the unconscious.

Ref : LCD7947

2 300,00 €

( $2,666.04 - £1,998.68 - CHF 2 102,01 )

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