short biography

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, born in 1890 in Philadelphia/USA, died 1976 in Paris) was a leading figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements. He is the inventor of 'rayographs' (photograms).

Dadaism, Surrealism, Photography, painting, objects, collages, film, photomontages, photograms "Rayogrammes"

http://www.moma.org/artists/3716
http://www.artnet.com/artists/man-ray

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collection/s

ADDISON Andover Artfonds 21, Frankfurt Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick Centre Pompidou Paris Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris Cincinnati Art Museum Collection Lambert, Avignon ° Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington Currier Museum of Art, Manchester New Hampshire FRAC OCCITANIE Montpellier Falmouth Art Gallery Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur Frac Bourgogne, Dijon Fundacio Sunol, Barcelona George Eastman House, Rochester Getty, Los Angeles Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington High Museum of Art, Atlanta ° IVAM Valencia K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen ' Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura Kreeger Museum, Washington Kunsthalle Bielefeld Kunsthaus Zürich LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art MACBA Barcelona ' MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York MUMOK Wien Menil Collection, Houston Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Middlebury College Museum of Art Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Mills College, Oakland Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ' Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (closed for renovation) Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb ' Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museums Vledder Musée d´Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Museum of Photography Copenhagen Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Neue Galerie Graz / Bruseum New Orleans Museum of Art Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY Chichester Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Philadelphia Museum of Art REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Sammlung F.C. Gundlach Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby Staatsgalerie Stuttgart TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tate Collection The Baltimore Museum of Art ° The Jewish Museum, New York Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing ° Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown . Worcester Art Museum Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Yokohama Museum of Art ° foam Amsterdam n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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    Zufall Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen