PRESSE-PAPIER À PRIAPE - PRIAPUS PAPERWEIGHT, Man Ray

1890 - 1976

bronze
height: 101 cm ; 39 3/4 in.
Conceived in 1920 and cast in 1968 in an edition of three bronzes (Sergio Tosi, Milan), after the original object created in New York in 1920 (since destroyed) consisting of steel balls and tubing. Several editions of this object were made in silver, bronze and marble in the 1960s and early 1970s, the present edition being the most rare, limited in number and the largest in size. The three bronze casts of this edition were reserved for Man Ray and his wife Juliet, Sergio Tosi (the publisher) and Alexandre Iolas (the present cast).