Flying Dutchman
Man Ray American
Not on view
The painting Flying Dutchman originates from an early photograph Man Ray made of sheets on a clothesline in New York called Moving Sculpture. The painting’s title suggests that the image reminded him of ship sails and, more specifically, of Richard Wagner’s celebrated tragic opera The Flying Dutchman (1843), based on the legend of a ghost ship doomed to journey aimlessly forever, its sails in tatters.
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