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Revision as of 12:45, 18 September 2014
FANTASTIC FORGERIES /
MAN RAY - AU POIL - 1972
material/technique: hair, paper, stamp-pad ink, perspex, metal
type of object: ready-made
dimensions: 24,7 x 17,1 x 23 cm
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.
