Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Man Ray Portraits
22 June – 22 September 2013
Man Ray, Solarised Portrait of Lee Miller, c.1929 © Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2012, courtesy The Penrose Collection. Image courtesy the Lee Miller Archives
Presented in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in London, Man Ray Portraits is the first major museum retrospective of this highly influential artist’s photographic portraits and features over 100 works from his career in America and Paris, dating from 1916 to 1968.
The exhibition demonstrates Man Ray’s central position among the leading artists of the Dada and Surrealist movements and includes works drawn from internationally significant collections including those of the Pompidou Centre, the J. Paul Getty Museum and New York’s The Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The portraits on display include the artist's lovers, friends and contemporaries: ranging from two of his most significant muses, Lee Miller and Kiki de Montparnasse, to fellow artists, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
Sponsored by Baillie Gifford Investment Managers.
Mon–Sun, 10am–5pm (6pm during August, late opening until 7pm Thurs)
Adult £7, concessions £5
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
0131 624 6200
Events
6 August 2013
Man Ray's Women
12.45–13.30pm
Free admission
8 August 2013
Aquillos Ensemble
6–6:30pm
Free admission
13 August 2013
Man Ray the Magic Man
12:45–13:45pm
Free admission, booking essential.
15 August 2013
Rosie Nimmo and Stuart Allardyce
6–6:30pm
Free admission
27 August 2013
Man Ray's Portraits of Duchamp: Questions of Identity
12.45–13.30pm
Free admission