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Photographer and artist Man Ray\u2019s iconic surrealist photograph\u00a0Le Violon d\u2019Ingres<\/em> (shown above) has smashed the world record price for a single photograph at auction by fetching $12.4million at Christie\u2019s New York on 14 May 2022, against a record pre-sale estimate of between $5 to $7million (US).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sale of the photographic print came after a drawn-out telephone bidding period that lasted nearly 10 minutes during Christie\u2019s New York\u2019s auction dedicated to Surrealist art.<\/p>\n

Many had predicted the Man Ray nude was set to be world\u2019s most expensive photograph<\/a> but few could have predicted its hammer price would be over $12million.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Le Violon d\u2019Ingres<\/em> image depicts a nude woman with f-shaped violin markings on her back and reached over $8million more than the previous record auction price for a single photograph – the $4.34million paid for Andreas Gursky\u2019s Rhein II<\/em> <\/strong>during a Christie\u2019s auction in November 2011.<\/p>\n

In 2014 the Australia-born photographer Peter Lik claimed he has sold a photograph, entitled Phantom<\/em>, for $6.5million<\/strong>\u00a0but that transaction has never been officially proven and a buyer has never come forward, so\u00a0Gursky\u2019s\u00a0Rhein II<\/em> was, up till now, the most expensive single photograph with an officially verified sale price.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Andreas\t\t\t

Andreas Gursky’s previous record breaking Rhein II photograph sold for $4.34million in 2011. \u00a9 Andreas Gursky\/Christie’s<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

May Ray\u2019s 1924 masterpiece, widely considered his most famous work, was sold alongside other photographs, artworks, jewellery and posters from a Surrealist collection compiled by Rosalind Gersten Jacobs (a retail executive and fashion buyer for Macy\u2019s) and her husband Melvin Jacobs (who was chief executive of Saks Fifth Avenue).<\/p>\n

Paintings by Man Ray previously have been auctioned off for up to $5.8million, but none of his photographs had ever previously sold for more than $3.13million.<\/p>\n

That \u00a33.13million figure was paid at a Christie\u2019s Paris auction in 2017 for Man Ray\u2019s\u00a0Noire et Blanche<\/em> (1926), which is shown below.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Noire\t\t\t

Noire et Blanche by Man Ray, 1926, sold for $3.13million in 2017. The model in the picture, Alice Prin (aka Kiki de Montparnasse), is the same woman Man Ray photographed for Le Violon d’Ingres. \u00a9 Man Ray\/Christie’s<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

May Ray’s 1962 sale<\/h3>\n

In 1962, Man Ray sold Le Violon d\u2019Ingres <\/em>directly to the Jacobs, a married couple who befriended many famous surrealist artists \u2013 including Marcel Duchamp, Ren\u00e9 Magritte and Max Ernst \u2013 and purchased many of their important works.<\/p>\n

Man Ray\u2019s\u00a0Le Violin d\u2019Ingres<\/em>\u00a0is a print that\u2019s considered by experts to be an original photographic copy, created around when Ray captured the photo negative.<\/p>\n

Both Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs have passed and their surrealist collection was sold by their daughter, Peggy Jacobs Bader.<\/p>\n

Peggy Jacobs Bader revealed,\u00a0\u2018The acquisition of nearly every piece has a unique and intimate story behind it. The joyful spirit of my parents\u2019 relationship with the artists is reflected in the works they amassed. In viewing the collection, one gets a visceral sense of my parents\u2019 love of Surrealism, their discerning eye for great art, their playfulness and, at times, their mischievousness.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Prior to the auction, Darius Himes, international head of photographs at Christie\u2019s, explained,\u00a0\u2018The reach and influence of the image, at once romantic, mysterious, roguish, and playful, has captured the minds of all for nearly 100 years.\u00a0<\/em>Le Violon d\u2019Ingres 1924, by Man Ray of his lover Kiki de Montparnasse, is inarguably one of the most iconic works of the 20th century. This beguiling Surrealist image is the result of a unique and hand-manipulated darkroom process. As a photographic work, it is unprecedented in the marketplace<\/em>.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Creating Le Violon d\u2019Ingres<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The title of the Man Ray photograph is translated as \u2018Ingres\u2019 violin\u2019, and it is a widely used French idiom that means \u2018hobby\u2019.<\/p>\n

It invokes the name of\u00a0Jean-August Dominique Ingres, a 19th century artist, who wished to be best known for his violin playing, rather than his painting.<\/p>\n

It was in Paris, in 1924, that Man Ray photographed his lover and companion, Alice Prin (aka\u00a0Kiki de Montparnasse), who went on to become one of the most famous models of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the painting\u00a0La Grande Baigneuse<\/em>\u00a0(aka The Bather of Valpin\u00e7on<\/em>, shown below) by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Ray painted violin sound holes on Prin\u2019s back to transform her body into something akin to a musical string instrument.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"Jean\t\t\t

Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ The Bather of Valpinc\u0327on was the inspiration for Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

The \u2018f-holes\u2019 weren\u2019t painted onto Prin\u2019s back in real life but, instead, they were painted onto a print of the photographic portrait that Ray had shot. He then rephotographed the classical nude portrait to create the finished surreal photographic artwork.<\/p>\n

The black-and-white image depicts Alice Prin\/Kiki de Montparnasse, with her naked back facing the camera, and her head, crowned with a turban, slightly turned to the left; her arms aren\u2019t visible.<\/p>\n

Two f-shaped violin markings are cleverly positioned in the middle of the model\u2019s back, giving her body the appearance of a string instrument.<\/p>\n

The photograph\u2019s title,\u00a0Le Violon d\u2019Ingres<\/em>, also pays homage to the fact that Ingres was a passionate violin musician when he was not painting.<\/p>\n

His secondary interest became so well known that it begot the common French expression \u2018violon d\u2019Ingres\u2019, which means a secondary hobby, passion, or skill apart from the one an individual is known for.<\/p>\n

The title may also be a reference by Man Ray to the fact that he felt Prin was his personal \u2018violon d\u2019Ingres\u2019.<\/p>\n

Le Violon d\u2019Ingres<\/em>\u00a0was first published in a special June 1924 issue of\u00a0Litt\u00e9rature<\/em>, a struggling surrealist magazine that was launched in 1919 and closed after the final issue, which Man Ray\u2019s photo appeared in.<\/p>\n

In the 98 years since the first publication of Le Violon d\u2019Ingres<\/em>\u00a0the photograph has become one of the most recognisable works of surrealist art anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

The Getty Museum noted,\u00a0\u2018The transformation of Kiki\u2019s body into a musical instrument with the crude addition of a few brushstrokes makes this a humorous image, but her armless form is also disturbing to contemplate.\u00a0The title seems to suggest that, while playing the violin was Ingres\u2019s hobby, toying with Kiki was a pastime of Man Ray. The picture maintains a tension between objectification and appreciation of the female form.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"The\t\t\t

The full frame of Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres surreal photographic artwork. \u00a9 Man Ray\/Christie’s<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

Man Ray’s background<\/h3>\n

Man Ray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 27 August 1890 as Emmanuel Radnitzky, but he became known in his adult and professional life as Man Ray.<\/p>\n

He was a pioneering US fashion and portrait photographer, who created iconic nude and surreal photos while living in New York and Paris.<\/p>\n

Man Ray was also known for his camera-less photograms, which he famously dubbed \u2018rayographs\u2019<\/em>, and the invention of the solarisation process with Lee Miller.<\/p>\n

He spent his early life in New York, turning down a scholarship to study architecture in order to devote himself to painting.<\/p>\n

In 1915, while at Ridgefield artist colony in New Jersey, he met the French artist Marcel Duchamp and together they tried to establish New York Dada.<\/p>\n

Shortly after arriving in Paris in 1921, he met and fell in love with Alice Prin (aka Kiki de Montparnasse), an artists\u2019 model and celebrated character in Paris bohemian circles.<\/p>\n

Kiki was Man Ray\u2019s companion for most of the 1920s and became the subject of some of his most famous photographic images, including Le Violon d’Ingres<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Following the outbreak of World War II, Man Ray left France for the US\u00a0and took up residence in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

He returned to Paris in 1951 and made the city his home until his death, in November 1976, from a lung infection.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"A\t\t\t

A self-portrait by Man Ray, 1942. \u00a9 Man Ray<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

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The Top 10 Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold At Auction<\/h3>\n

1 \u2013 Le Violon d’Ingres <\/strong>by Man Ray. Sold at Christie\u2019s New York in May 2022 for $12,400,000.<\/p>\n

2 \u2013 Rhein II\u00a0<\/strong>by Andreas Gursky, 1999. Sold at Christie\u2019s New York in November 2011 for $4,338,500.<\/p>\n

3 \u2013 Spiritual America\u00a0<\/strong>by Richard Prince, 1981. Sold at Christie\u2019s New York in May 2014 for $3,973,000.<\/p>\n

4 \u2013 Untitled #96\u00a0<\/strong>by Cindy Sherman, 1981. This print sold for $3,890,500 when it was auctioned at Christie\u2019s New York in May 2011.<\/p>\n

5 \u2013 To Her Majesty\u00a0<\/strong>by Gilbert & George, 1973. This series of photos sold at Christie\u2019s London in June 2008 for $3,765,276.<\/p>\n

6 \u2013 Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)\u00a0<\/strong>by Jell Wall, 1992. This sold at Christie\u2019s New York in May 2012 for $3,666,500.<\/p>\n

7 \u2013 99 Cent II Diptychon\u00a0<\/strong>by Andreas Gursky, 2001. The two-part photo fetched $3,346,456 at Sotheby\u2019s London in 2007.<\/p>\n

8 \u2013 Chicago Board of Trade II\u00a0<\/strong>by Andreas Gursky, 1999. This 157\u00d7284cm print was auctioned for $3,298,755 in 2013.<\/p>\n

9 \u2013 Untitled (Cowboy)\u00a0<\/strong>by Richard Prince, 2000. The piece was bought for $3,077,000 in 2014.<\/p>\n

10 \u2013 Untitled Film Still #48\u00a0<\/strong>by Cindy Sherman, 1979. Photograph #48 was bought for $2,965,00 in 2015.<\/p>\n

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