Black and white photo of a woman with a turban, her back to the camera, featuring two f-holes like a violin on her lower back.

The Estate of Man Ray

Le Violon d’Ingres

€600
Limited edition of 126
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Man Ray’s defining piece of 20th-century art becomes a new limited edition print, in collaboration with his Estate.

Created in 1924, Le Violon d'Ingres is one of Man Ray's most celebrated photographs. The work features his muse Kiki de Montparnasse with f-shaped violin holes added to her back, transforming her body into a musical instrument. The photograph first appeared as the front cover for the final issue of André Breton's Littérature in 1924, a publication that marked the emergence of Surrealism. Man Ray created the original through an innovative technique, combining a traditional photograph with his rayograph method – burning the f-holes directly onto light-sensitive paper before exposing Kiki's portrait over them.

This limited edition print features a matte varnish seal and bespoke debossed archive stamp, carefully crafted by our expert printmakers at our London fine art print studio, Make-Ready.

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