Editing Man Ray (section)

==Art market==
Man Ray's ''[[Le Violon d'Ingres]]'' (1924), a famed photograph depicting a nude Alice Prin's back overlaid with a violin's f-holes, sold for $12.4 million on May 14, 2022, setting a new world record as the most expensive photograph ever to be sold at auction. The sale came after a drawn-out bidding period that lasted nearly ten minutes during [[Christie's]] New York's auction dedicated to Surrealist art.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Villa |first=Angelica |date=2022-05-14 |title=Man Ray's Famed Photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse Sells for Record $12.4 M. |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/man-rays-famed-photograph-of-kiki-de-montparnasse-sells-for-record-12-4-m-1234628663/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

On November 9, 2017, Man Ray's ''[[Noire et Blanche]]'' (1926), formerly in the collection of [[Jacques Doucet (fashion designer)|Jacques Doucet]], was purchased at Christie's Paris for €2,688,750 (US$3,120,658), becoming (at that time) the 14th most expensive photograph to ever sell at auction.<ref>[https://www.artmarketmonitor.com/2017/11/09/man-ray-makes-a-3m-record-in-paris/ ''Man Ray Makes a $3m Record in Paris''], November 9, 2017, by Marion Maneker</ref><ref>[https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/man-ray-1890-1976-noire-et-blanche-1926-6105841-details.aspx ''Stripped Bare: Photographs from the Collection of Thomas Koerfer''], Christie's Paris, November 9, 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.christies.com/features/2017-highlight-Man-Rays-Noire-et-Blanche-8794-1.aspx Elodie Morel, 'My highlight of 2017' — Man Ray's ''Noire et Blanche''], Christie's Paris, December 13, 2017</ref> This was a record not only for Man Ray's work in the photographic medium but also for the sale at auction of any vintage photograph.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Drost |first1=Julia |url=https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/485 |title=Networking Surrealism in the USA: Agents, Artists, and the Market |last2=Flahutez |first2=Fabrice |last3=Helmreich |first3=Anne |last4=Schieder |first4=Martin |last5=D’Alessandro |first5=Stephanie |last6=Gale |first6=Matthew |last7=Umland |first7=Anne |last8=Kwartler |first8=Talia |last9=Tostmann |first9=Oliver |date=2019-12-10 |publisher=arthistoricum.net |isbn=978-3-947449-50-7 |language=en}}</ref>

Only two other works by Man Ray in any medium have commanded more at auction than the price captured by the 2017 sale of ''Noire et blanche.'' His 1916 canvas ''Promenade'' sold for $5,877,000 on November 6, 2013, at the Sotheby's New York Impressionist & Modern Art Sale.<ref>Wendy A. Grossman, "Surrealism and the Marketing of Man Ray's Photographs in America: The Medium, the Message, and the Tastemakers," in Networking Surrealism in the U.S.A. Agents, Artists and the Market, ed. Julia Drost, et al (DFK Paris/arthistoricum.net, 2019), 238, n.3</ref> And on November 13, 2017, his assemblage titled ''Catherine Barometer'' (1920), sold for $3,252,500 at [[Christie's]] in New York.<ref>[https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/man-ray-1890-1976-catherine-barometer-6108717-details.aspx Man Ray, ''Catherine Barometer'', $3,252,500 USD], Christie's New York, November 13, 2017</ref>