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Fair Weather
Le Beau Temps
Man Ray, American, 1890 - 1976
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1939Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
6 feet 10 3/4 inches × 6 feet 6 3/4 inches (210.2 × 200 cm)Copyright:
© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
American Art
2014-1-1Credit Line:
125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of Sidney and Caroline Kimmel, 2014
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1939Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
6 feet 10 3/4 inches × 6 feet 6 3/4 inches (210.2 × 200 cm)Copyright:
© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
American Art
* Gallery 269, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor
Accession Number:2014-1-1Credit Line:
125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of Sidney and Caroline Kimmel, 2014
Label:
Man Ray described Fair Weather as the culmination of his Surrealist career. The mannequin figure may be a coded self-portrait and the painting contains quotations from a few of his earlier paintings.
Fair Weather is also a nightmarish premonition of the Second World War; the bombarded stone wall and puddle of blood are two of its more direct symbols of violence. The artist left this painting behind when he departed Europe for his native United States in 1940, but he eventually reclaimed it and kept it for the rest of his life.
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