Frances Poulenc (Primary Title)

Man Ray, American, 1890 - 1976 (Artist)

ca. 1922
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Mount: 8 7/16 × 6 7/16 in. (21.43 × 16.35 cm)
Image: 8 3/16 × 6 3/16 in. (20.8 × 15.72 cm)
2019.54
Not on view
Mounted to cardstock
Vanity Fair publication stamp in faded black ink on mount verso with graphite inscriptions: "10450" [graphite inscription] Stamp in red ink on mount verso: "Photo/ Man Ray/ Paris". (M#1- check Text Entry notes for stamp details)
Inscribed likely by photographer in faded black ink on mount verso: "Francis Poulenc/ one of the young composers of the French School,/ whose work is "known" [scratched out] heard at the modern/ recitals in Paris, and who is now writing a/ ballet for the de Diaghilev productions,/ the decors and costumes being by Marie Laurencin". Reduction notations in an unidentified hand in graphite on mount verso: [horizontal directional arrows on either side] "2". Inscribed in an unidentified hand in graphite on mount verso: "unpublished/ drawing published 1924".
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment

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