Multiple . Metronome, photograph, paper clip. In an original black-lacquered wooden case. Signed and numbered on an edition label on the reverse. With a metal plate on the removable cap of the metronome, bearing the title and the date in typography. Copy 31/100. Height: 22 cm. Original wooden case: 23,8 x 13,4 x 13,2 cm.
Executed in 1965 after the original object from1923/30. Published by Edition MAT (Multiplication d'Art Transformable), Paris. [AW].

• “Objet indestructible” combines Man Ray’s central artistic approaches: the readymade and photography.
• Man Ray uses the eye of his lover and muse, the famous photographer Lee Miller.
• With a deliberate blow of a hammer, the artist destroys the original object “Objet à détruire”—the new edition is created in 1965 and renamed in reference to his reconciliation with Lee Miller.
• In the same family collection for nearly 60 years.
• Another copy of this edition is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
LITERATURE: Jean-Hubert Martin, Brigitte Hermann, Rosalind Krauss, Man Ray. Objets de mon affection, Paris 1983, CR no. 31. - - Meredith Malone, Sam Adams, Molly Mood et. al., Multiplied: Edition MAT and the transformable work of art, 1959-1965, Washington 2020, p. 177.

Galerie Onnasch, Berlin. Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1969, family-owned ever since)

In good condition. The edges of the image are very slightly discolored. The metronome and the display case show some minor wear in places and a few tiny areas of paint chipping. The interior of the display case is slightly soiled. The metronome is functioning.