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Man Ray, PERPETUAL MOTIF, inscribed Man Ray and numbered 36/40, readymade wooden metronome with photo-optic eye, height: 22.2cm. 8.75in. Executed in 1970-71 in an edition of 40 (Galleria Il Fauno, Turin) after the original object of 1923 (destroyed). Provenance, Galleria Il Fauno, Turin, Obelisco Gallery, Rome, Private collection, Rome, Literature, Roland Penrose, Man Ray, London, 1975, p. 110, no. 64, illustration of a 1958 replica, Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, The Rigour of Imagination, London, 1977, p. 218, no. 331, illustration of the 1932 drawing; p. 218, nos. 329 & 332, illustrations of examples from the 1963 and the present edition , Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss & Brigitte Hermann, Objets de mon affection, Sculptures et objets, Catalogue raisonne, Paris, 1983, p. 46, illustration of an earlier replica; pp. 142 & 143, no. 31, edition catalogued, Man Ray, Self Portrait, Boston and London, 1988, p. 97, illustration of the 1958 replica, Man Ray's celebrated object of a metronome with a photograph of an eye affixed to it's swinging arm was first created in 1923 and titled Object , to be Destroyed. In 1932, the artist made an ink drawing of the object with the following inscription on the reverse: "Cut out the eye from the photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow". In the same year, Man Ray exchanged the eye on the metronome for a photograph of Lee Miller's eye. The bitter instructions on the drawing were motivated by the recent ending of Man Ray's relationship with Lee Miller.
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Man Ray, 1890-1976, INDESTRUCTIBLE OBJECT, inscribed Man Ray and numbered 40/100 on the case; titled and inscribed 1923-1965 on a plaque attached to the metronome lid, readymade wooden metronome with metal paper-clip and photographic eye, height: 21.5cm., 8.5in. Man Ray's celebrated object of a metronome with a photographic eye affixed to its swinging arm was first created in 1923 and titled Object to be Destroyed. In 1932, the artist made an ink drawing of the object with the following inscription on the reverse: "Cut out the eye from the photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow" (Man Ray, Self-Portrait, Boston, 1963, pp. 306-7 in the 1988 edition).
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