Man RayVereinigte Staaten, 1890–1976Shakespearean Equation: Hamlet
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About the painting
Man Ray’s painting belongs to a series of works inspired by three-dimensional mathematical models he encountered at a scientific institute in Paris. With a desire to create surreal and cryptic juxtapositions, he titled these paintings after plays by William Shakespeare. Although their literary associations appear random, May Ray explained that, in the case of Hamlet, the mathematical form reminded him of a skull and breast, respectively referencing the characters of Yorick, whose skull Hamlet encounters in a cemetery, and Ophelia.
Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Inventarnummer
- 1992.301
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- Cleveland Museum of Art: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 6 Tagen
- Bild: Cleveland Museum of Art — © 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Derweil im Leben von Man Ray
Das ganze Leben1940–1951
Los Angeles: painting and teaching
From 1940 to 1951 Ray lives in Los Angeles, where he focuses his creative energy on painting and also teaches painting and photography.
1948
The Copley Galleries show: the “Shakespearean Equations”
At his solo exhibition at the Copley Galleries in Beverly Hills Ray shows a wide array of work, including newly painted canvases from the Shakespearean Equations series.
1951
Back in Paris: the studio on rue Férou
Ray returns to Paris and settles with Juliet in a studio at 2 bis rue Férou, near the Jardin du Luxembourg; he lives in Paris for the rest of his life.
1951–1976
New versions of earlier works and limited-edition replicas
During the last quarter century of his life Ray returns to a number of his iconic earlier works, recreating them in new form, and directs the production of limited-edition replicas of several of his objects, working first with Marcel Zerbib and later with Arturo Schwarz.
