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FANTASTIC FORGERIES /
http://collectie.boijmans.nl/nl/collection/mb-1991-8-(mk)
MAN RAY - AU POIL - 1972
Year/ 1971
Location/ this object is on view in room 35
Type of object/ ready-made
Accession number/ MB 1991/8 (MK)
Dimensions/ 24,7 x 17,1 x 23 cm
Material and technique/ hair, paper, stamp-pad ink, perspex, metal
Purchase/ 1991
Collection/ Modern
ArtExhibitions/ Surrealisme (2013)
Research/ Digitising Contemporary Art
A brush that you can use to aply gold on a object, which Man Ray placed between two plexiglass plates.
Au poil is another word for ‘perfection’ in french.
But ‘a poil’ also means ‘naked’ where ‘poil’ is a translation for ‘hair’.
This improved ready-made was made in 1971.
The artwork in Boijmans van Beuningen is one piece of fifty.
