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Man Ray / United States 1890—1976 / Untitled 1966 / Lithograph on paper / 65.5 x 56cm; 42 x 33.7cm (comp.) / Purchased 1990 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Man Ray. ARS/Copyright Agency
Man RayUntitled 1966
Not Currently on Display
Man Ray’s main photographic achievement was the Rayograph, a technique (also known as a ‘photogram’) for rendering a three-dimensional abstract world in a photographic print. It is this process that has been translated into lithographic form in Untitled 1966. Here, the original photogram (from the 1920s) employed objects on light-sensitive paper without a camera. The lithograph was made during Ray’s lifetime, in collaboration with master printers at Gemini GEL.
Man Ray is considered to have been the most important American dada artist. Under the influence of Marcel Duchamp (1887—1968) in New York, from 1915 onwards he pioneered the construction of useless artifacts and utilised the principles of chance in composition.