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Click here to subscribeMan 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).