Man Ray
Objet Indestructible (Metronom)
1923/1965
Object. Metronome, photo, paper clip. In black varnished original wooden case (25 x 13.8 x 13.8 cm). Height 22 cm. Edition label on the back of metronome, there signed and numbered. Metal badge on removable cover plate of metronome, there typographically titled and dated "objet in-destructible 1923-1965". Copy 72/100. Edition MAT/Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne 1965, as collection 65. - Very good condition.
Provenance
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne; Private property, North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature
Daniel Buchholz/Gregorio Magnani (ed.), International Index of Multiples from Duchamp to the Present, Cologne 1993, p. 131 with illus.; Katerina Vatsella, Edition MAT: Daniel Spoerri, Karl Gerstner und das Multiple. Die Entstehung einer Kunstform, Bremen 1998, p. 232f. with illus.; Meredith Malone/Sam Adams i.a., Multiplied: Edition MAT and the transformable work of art, 1959-1965, Washington 2020, p. 177 with illus.
Exhibitions
I.a. London 1970 (Arts Council of Great Britain, Whitechapel Gallery), Three towards Infinity. New Multiple Art, cat. no. 490, p. 63 with illus.; Cologne 1970 (Galerie Der Spiegel), Offerte IV/Objekte, cat. no. 29 with illus.; Philadelphia 1971 (Museum of Art), Multiples - The First Decade, with illus. 3; Berlin 1974 (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Multiples. Ein Versuch, die Entwicklung des Auflagenobjekts darzustellen, p. 52 with illus.; Hamburg 1994 (Deichtorhallen), Das Jahrhundert des Multiple. Von Duchamp bis zur Gegenwart, cat. no. 42, p. 111