Man Ray - Leda (1941)

Man Ray - Mathematical Object (1936)

“The Mathematical Objects are a series of photographs Man Ray took in the context of a commission in preparation for the January 1936 issue of Cahiers d’Art devoted to the Crisis of the Object. At the suggestion of Max Ernst Man Ray visited the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, where, in 1934, he photographed objects made of wood, metal, plaster and wire, made in the latter half of the 19th century to illustrate algebraic equations. The underlying formulas meant nothing to him but the shapes of the objects were so diverse and authentic as any natural object and he was intrigued by the fact that these were man-made. Man Ray’s photographs invariably transform the appearance of the objects through innovative lighting and composition.”

“While the photographs of the Mathematical Objects are a self-contained group of works, they were re-used as the basis of a group of paintings Man Ray executed in 1948, entitled Shakespearean Equations, where he created compositions incorporating the mathematical objects embedded with visual references to events and characters  from plays by Shakespear.”

William Gear -  Autumn Trunks (1953)

Ian Fairweather - Hangchow Canal (c.1950)

 Ceri Richards - Shadows in a room (1950) 

Tsuguharu Foujita - Portrait of a young girl (1959) 

Francis Picabia - Abstract (1938)

Salvador Dalí - Princess Artchild Gourielli, Helena Rubinstein (1943) - Detail

Eric de Nie - Observer II (1974)

Luis Tomasello - Atmosphere Chromoplastique (1968)