DEGRADATION OF TOMB PHOTOGRAHE MAN RAY

It is also here, in the Montparnasse cemetery, that the photographer of the crazy years, Man Ray, died in 1976.

An AFP photographer found on Wednesday that the tomb of the American photographer was degraded, the stele torn off, the portrait of the artist shattered resting on the grave.

Painter, draftsman and director, he is mainly known for his work as a photographer and surrealist works such as "The Violin of Ingres", with the gills of the instrument drawn on the back of the model, the singer Kiki de Montparnasse.

She also poses in "Black and White" with an African mask.

The Pinacoteca had devoted a retrospective to the American photographer Man Ray with nearly 250 works of which

"Black and White".

Man Ray began his career in New York before settling in Paris and getting closer to the dada movement and surrealists.

It is in the light city of the roaring twenties that he perfected his art from 1921 to 1940, where he photographed, painted and drew in his studio in the Montparnasse district.

He will photograph Jean Cocteau, the writer James Joyce or Berenice Abbot.