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Le Violon d’Ingres by Man Ray has been sold today for $12.4 million at Christie’s, a record for any photograph at auction

Le Violon d’Ingres by Man Ray has been sold today for $12.4 million at Christie’s, a record for any photograph at auction

by Neil | May 14, 2022 | news

The security guard in Christie’s lobby last Thursday told me where to find the pre-auction viewing for The Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs & Melvin Jacobs. He motioned to the left, saying “go through the keyhole,” an arched liminal cutout into a...

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