Man Ray
"Photograph of Mary Reynolds"
1930
I love when I "discover"
a missing link to the puzzles of the past.
Bookbinder and surrealist muse Mary Reynolds is one of
those missing links for me.
I snagged this book a few years ago
and then promptly "lost" it in the book jungle
that is my apartment.
Well,
once lost
and now rediscovered,
both the book
and Mary!
Man Ray
"Photograph of Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp"
n.d.
Man Ray
"Photograph of Mary Reynolds"
c. 1930s
Constantin Brancusi,
Marcel Duchamp and Mary Reynolds in
Villefranche, France.
1929
Alexander Calder
"Mary Reynolds with Her Cats"
1955
Marcel Duchamp
Bookplate designed by Marcel for the
Mary Reynolds Collection.
c. 1950s (?)
Mary Reynolds
"The Knowledge of God or the Creation of Man"
by Jean Pierre Brisset
Bufo Toad skin cover
n.d.
Mary Reynolds
"A Harsh Winter"
by Raymond Queneau
Goatskin with broken thermometer
1939
Mary Reynolds
"The Free Hands"
Drawings by Man Ray, poems by Paul Eluard
Goatskin and kid gloves
1937
Mary Reynolds
"Ubu Cocu Restored to its Integrity
as it was Presented
by the Puppets
of the Theater Des Phyances"
by Alfred Jarry
Goatskin and calf skin
1944
Mary Reynolds
"Hebdomeros"
By Giorgio de Chirico
Goatskin and leather
1929
Mary Reynolds
"The Red and the White [Lucien Leuwen]"
by Stendhal
Goatskin and vellum
1929
Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp
"King Ubu: Play in Five Acts"
by Alfred Jarry
Goatskin and various leathers
1921
Mary Reynolds
"Mental Hospital"
by Jean Cocteau
Goatskin and vellum
1926
Mary Reynolds
"Saint Glinglin"
Goatskin with broken pottery cup handle
1948
All images from:
'Mary Reynolds and the Spirit of Surrealism"
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 22, No.2
1996
