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MAN RAY USA 1890-1976 Object indestructible 1923-1965 Signed verso on label Man Ray, nr 25/100, édition MAT, collection 65. Sculpture - Installation - Readymade, 22 x 11 x 11 cm. Man Ray created the original Object indestructible in 1923 as a ready-made. It was intended to serve as a silent witness in his studio, watching him paint. Immediately after his companion and mistress, the American photographer and model Lee Miller left him in 1932, he taped a photo of her eye to the pendulum of the metronome. By doing this, he cemented the memory of her as an urgent beat or pulse - both irritating and sustaining. Perhaps a metaphor for desire. Lee Miller left Paris to take a job for Vogue in New York. Man Ray's parting gift was a photograph of her eye, the same eye as he had used when creating Object indestructible, but larger. On the reverse he wrote: "Post scriptum: 11 October, 1932 With an eye always in reserve Materiel indestructible Forever being put away Taken for a ride Put on the spot The racket must go on" From Lee Miller Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad 2009, page 52 Man Ray had stated on many occasions that he intended to destroy the work one day as a performance. In 1957, a group of young people who called themselves "Jarivistes" did something about it. They stormed the Dada exhibition in Paris, stole the work and then shot it to pieces with a pistol. Man Ray used the money he received from the insurance company to make a limited edition of 100 replicas. This later version was entitled Objet indestructible, which refers not only to the difficulty in destroying so many works, but also to the immortality of the original concept. The portrayed eye is the eye of Öyvin Fahlström. Changes Droit de suite