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Original works by Man Ray available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago
Eastman House Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, New York 12 "Rayographs"
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Dance in the Subway, 1948
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 103 works online by Man Ray
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Pensore and Man Ray
Man Ray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Compass, 1920 (Zoom)
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris Marcel Proust sur son lit de mort, 1922
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 5 works by Man Ray online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 3 works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Silhouette, 1916
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Silhouette, 1916
Man Ray at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Peggy Guggenheim, 1924
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. The Black Tray, 1914
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut Clock Wheels
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Bird from Nowhere (Oiseau de nullepart)
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Untitled (The Three Graces)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Space Writing (Self-Portrait), gelatin silver print, 1935
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Portrait of Virginia Woolf, gelatin silver print, 1934
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia Electricité, 1931
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. La Tete, 1931
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire 9 works online
Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW! 2 works online
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German) 
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona NEW!
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin Illustrated .PDF document with info about the 2002 exhibition, Man Ray on Paper
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
International Center of Photography, New York City
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "M"
Man Ray in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW! Place de la Concorde
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  Lippen an Lippen, ca.1930
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project 4 works by Man Ray
Man Ray at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Gemini G.E.L. prints
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 8 works by Man Ray online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Motif perpétuel, 1971
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska Cadeau
Man Ray at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Man Ray at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Portrait of Tristan Tzara, 1921
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Jewish Museum, New York City Untitled (Self-Portrait with Camera), 1930
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Objet Indestructible
University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford NEW!
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City La Fortune, 1938
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections Lampshade, aluminum, 1919
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections After lunch, watercolor, 1914
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Man Ray at The Athenaeum 3 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database  2 photographs of the artist
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Olga's Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
AnalisisFotografia (in Spanish) 
Another Form of Intervention/Studio Cleo
Art Minimal & Conceptual Only
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online) French Can Can
Filmography from the Internet Movie Database
PBS Biography, from the American Masters TV series
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
s u r r e a l i s t . c o m 5 works online
Studio Pesci Photographs from a 2005 exhibition
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations The Boat
Tout sur Catherine Deneuve (in French)  Photograph of Deneuve by Man Ray
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works  The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Man Ray  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW! 
PhotoQuotes
Resource Library Magazine Man Ray's Paris Portraits -- 1921-1939
Tate Magazine Indestructable Object, 1923
Tate Magazine Man Ray Laid Bare
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Rrose Sélavy, 1921
Multimedia:
Google Video Emak-Bakia, 1926 film by Man Ray
Google Video Le Retour à la raison, 1923 film by Man Ray
Google Video L'Étoile de mer, 1928 film by Man Ray
Google Video Les Mystères du château de dé, 1929 film by Man Ray
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Man Ray
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 Man Ray: Photographs, Paintings, Objects
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 Photographs by Man Ray: One Hundred Five Works, 1920-1934
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 Man Ray's Celebrity Photos
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 Man Ray: Cameo
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 Self Portrait: Man Ray
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