Let us know if you would like to see more photos of this artwork!
- Back of the work / Side of the work
- Details / Signature / Artwork's surface or texture
- Artwork in situation, Other...
Willem Dafoe (2013) Photography by Ann Ray
More info
- Packaging (Box or cardboard packaging) All artworks are shipped with a premium carrier, carefully protected and insured.
- Tracking Order tracking until the parcel is delivered to the buyer. A tracking number will be provided so that you can follow the parcel in real-time.
- Delay Worldwide delivery in 3 to 7 days (Estimate)
- Customs not included The price does not include customs fees. Most countries have no import tax for original artworks, but you may have to pay the reduced VAT. Customs fees (if any) are to be calculated on arrival by the customs office and will be billed separately by the carrier.
More info
- Trackable Online Certificate of Authenticity Authenticity Certificates can be verified online at any moment by scanning the artwork code.
- Artist Value Certification Experts study the work and career of an artist then establish an independent and reliable average price value. The average price value situates the artist on a price range for a given period. The experts may also be asked to establish a more precise estimate for a particular work.
More info
100% secure payment with SSL certificate + 3D Secure.
More info
-
Limited Edition (#2/9)
Photography,
Non Manipulated Photography
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 14.2in, Width 21.3in
- Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Photographs under $20,000 Conceptual Art Portrait
Cet exemplaire : N° 2/9 (les prix augmentent à partir du N°5, avec la rareté)
Image 36x54 sur feuille papier baryte 50x60cm
Photographie réalisée en fin de prise de vue pour "Les Yeux Fermés".
Face à face, un instant suspendu qui n'était pas supposé se produire.
Ann Ray a déclenché une seule fois pour cette image, la dernière d'une belle rencontre.
L'acteur Willem Dafoe, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
© Ann Ray 2013
Related themes
Ann Ray is a French multidisciplinary artist who has been writing, filming, photographing, drawing and painting since the age of 9. She produced her first photographic prints at the age of 11, and edited family films by hand (with an editor and cutter) at the same time.
Since 1995, she has devoted herself primarily to the image, via photography and film. She lived successively in Tokyo (2 years), then London (4 years), then Paris. She also goes to New York a lot, and travels regularly, in an insatiable curiosity.
She collaborates with many artists (actors, musicians, dancers, choreographers, creators...) and concentrates in parallel on personal projects, long-term projects, to which she can return constantly: her sources of inspiration and expression, always resolutely human-oriented. His portraits of artists with eyes closed, made since 2004, thus constitute a remarkable photographic corpus, like his "absent conversations" initiated in 2020, contemplative and dreamlike images.
Long stories are part of her career: Alexander McQueen, from 1997 to 2010 (suicide of the creator), for whom she made more than 30,000 silver photographs, and the Paris Opera, since 2004.
The fragile, the almost, the unspoken are essential in his work. Reading on several levels, games of transparencies, interstitial moments: all of Ann Ray's art lies in this ability to grasp the elusive, to immortalize the fleeting and beings, to touch with force and delicacy to the depths of the soul. , at most true.
She is also distinguished by the radical Art Direction of her projects (films, books, staging, exhibitions.) She continues to write, paint and draw.
In 2019, Ray finally seizes his white canvases and undertakes to materialize paintings that have remained in the sketch state. She voluntarily isolates herself in the fall of 2019 (!) - and her compositions on canvas take shape, first mixing words, images, and various materials; then very quickly abstraction imposes itself, pulverizing all limits: she uses collages, oil painting, ink, to create works as intense as they are poetic. She wants each painting to contain the possibility of elevation.
A prolific creator, she works in distinct series in order to remain faithful to the intention. 18 months were thus necessary to create her latest series, "wave clouds", which she will exhibit in 2024.
From now on Ray traces two paths: that of the image, always, with a claimed passion for silver photography and film ("non-manipulated"), and that of abstract compositions.
His photographs and compositions are exhibited in galleries and appear in prestigious institutional and private collections. She exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2018 and 2023, and published 8 books since 2008.
Ann Ray lives and works between Paris and Brittany, her native land.
- Nationality: FRANCE
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary French Artists