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Di Donna Galleries is pleased to announce the exhibition Enigma and Desire: Man Ray Paintings, on view from October 25 to December 13, 2019. The first survey exhibition to focus on Man Ray鈥檚 paintings, the show will present a vibrant selection of paintings that reveals the radicality of Man Ray鈥檚 thought and practice throughout his career, solidifying his historical position as a prophetic painter and theorist. The exhibition features approximately forty paintings from international museums, foundations, and distinguished private collections in Europe and the United States, as well as a selection of related works on paper. 

Enigma and Desire: Man Ray Paintings is organized in collaboration with Man Ray specialist Andrew Strauss of the Man Ray Expertise Committee, which is currently preparing the catalogues raisonn茅 of the paintings and works on paper of Man Ray. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated book with an essay by Dr. Ara Merjian.

Man Ray鈥檚 consistent challenges to artistic conventions and to the canonical structure that had developed around modernism established his central role in the Dada and Surrealist movements and beyond. The lasting effects of his oeuvre upon subsequent artistic movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries cannot be understated and is something clearly experienced in his groundbreaking approach to painting.