Object lessons: from MoMA's Man Ray to a Ming moon flask

Man Ray, Profile Study of a Woman (1928)Photographs, Phillips, New York, 4 April
Est $25,000-$35,000
Profile Study of a Woman (1928) by the Surrealist photographer Man Ray formerly belonged to James Thrall Soby, the American critic and curator who was also an avid collector of Modern art. The gelatine silver print was among more than 50 works of art that Soby bequeathed to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he had served as director of paintings and sculpture in the 1940s and as a trus