Man Ray had been introduced to Elsa Schiaparelli by Gabriel Picabia in the 1920s in New York, and she posed for him numerous times from then on. In this portrait, she wears a long dress with a trompe-l'oeil motif painted in the style of an antique Greek pleated garment, the result of her collaboration with the painter Jean Dunand.

Costumes and fashion accessories are juxtaposed with paintings, sculptures, jewelry, perfume bottles, posters and photographs by the greatest names of the surrealist period (Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, and others) to reveal to spectators the whimsy and artistic modernity of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, at the avant-garde of 1920s and ...

The American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) was the one who changed the status of photography from a simple record of reality to - also - an art form. His prod...

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky, dit) (1890, États-Unis - 1976, France) Elsa Schiaparelli vers 1933

The avant-garde fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973), shown here at around the time she opened her influential boutique in London in 1933, was one of Man Ray’s models and artistic collaborators. Renowned for her form-fitting, wrap-around dresses, she appears wearing one of her own creations.

The stamp on the verso of this photograph has been identified as M25 in Steven Manford’s book, Behind the photo: the stamps of Man Ray (2009). According to Manford, this is a lifetime stamp used from 1940 to 1951, “the stamp is also found on the backs of photographs Juliet sold to dealers ” (pp. 27 & 33).

Schiaparelli Elsa (1890-1973) (représentée) couturier noir et blanc portrait (personnalité)

Man Ray s'est constamment préoccupé de concilier photographie publicitaire et photographie artistique. Découvrez ici cinq oeuvres emblématiques de l'artiste : "Anatomies" (1930), "Kiki de Montparnasse" (1924), "Publicité pour des bijoux, mains de Nusck Eluard" (1935-1980), "Robe Elsa Schiaparelli" (vers 1931) et "Portrait de Juliet" (vers ...

2024年8月23日 · Italian female fashion designer and couturier, the greatest rival of Coco Chanel, and a friend of Surrealists such as Salvador Dalì and Man Ray, Elsa Schiaparelli became one of the most prominent figures in fashion and art between the two World Wars by turning the fabric into a painting canvas.

Details MAN RAY (1890-1976) Elsa Schiaparelli, vers 1934 tirage argentique signé au crayon (en bas à gauche sur l'image) Literature Man Ray portraits Paris-Hollywood-Paris, Archives Man Ray Centre Pompidou, Editions Schirmer/Mosel, p.230 (illustré) Further details