Miroir pour rire inscribed 'Miroir/pour rire' (overall) black felt-tipped pen and pencil on paper 17.1 x 12.1cm (6 3/4 x 4 3/4in) Executed circa 1970 Together with another work by the same artist, titled Nu enroulé, (2).
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PROVENANCE Man Ray Sale, Part II, Sotheby's London, 23 March 1995, lot 245. Acquired from the above by the present owner.
The title Miroir pour rire is a play on the French expression mourir de rire ('to die of laughter'). Man Ray created a unique object entitled Miroir à mourir de rire in 1952, which consisted of aluminium sheets in an oval wooden frame.
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