• Postcard recto, Man Ray, Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1921, published by Fotofolio, New York, n.d. [c.1984]. Offset black-and-white reproduction on cream card, 15 × 10 cm. Close-up photograph of the back of Marcel Duchamp's head — dark hair with a white star-shaped tonsure shaved into the crown; small black pipe held in the left hand, visible at lower left; wooden table edge and checked tablecloth in lower half of frame; plain wall behind. Light handling wear, good vintage condition.
  • Postcard verso, Man Ray, Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1921, published by Fotofolio, New York, n.d. [c.1984]. White ground, divided postal back with vertical rule and small registration mark at centre. Upper left: small black sans-serif — 'TONSURE (MARCEL DUCHAMP), 1921 / PHOTOGRAPH BY MAN RAY'. Lower left: '© MAN RAY TRUST / © FOTOFOLIO, BOX 661 CANAL STA., NY, NY 10013 / ISBN 1-881270-62-9 / MR30'. Light age toning, small marks, good vintage condition.
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MAN RAY — Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1921 / Fotofolio, New York, 1984

MAN RAY — Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1921 / Fotofolio, New York, 1984

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Postcard, Man Ray, Tonsure (Marcel Duchamp), 1921. Published by Fotofolio, New York, with Man Ray Trust credit to verso. Offset reproduction on cream card stock, 15 × 10 cm. Unposted. 

A small printed afterlife of one of the great Dada images. Man Ray’s photograph records Duchamp as both subject and intervention: the body turned into support, the haircut into gesture, the portrait into document. Issued by Fotofolio, the postcard places that image back into circulation as accessible printed matter — part reproduction, part art-historical shorthand, part portable archive.

Within The New Rare register, this sits between postcard, document, and secondary image-object. Not rare in the sense of unique, but not common in clean current circulation either. Its value is in the convergence: Man Ray, Duchamp, Dada, Fotofolio, and the survival of a small printed support from the later circulation of the image.

Condition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear, minor age toning, small marks to verso, and slight corner softness. Image side presents well. Ships flat and protected; Track & Trace registered EU mail available.

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