This portrait shows Marcel Duchamp and Raoul de Roussy de Sales, a French writer and journalist. In 1932, seven years after this portrait was taken, de Sales came to the United States to cover the New Deal for Revue de Paris and was a correspondent for Paris-Soir Paris-Midi, L’Europe Nouvelle and the Havas News Bureau. During the Second World War he was regarded as Charles De Gaulle’s mouthpiece. In this earlier portrait by Man Ray, he appears next to Marcel Duchamp, playing chess in the photographer’s studio. Duchamp, the famed Dada artist and creator of the ready-made, initially met Man Ray in New York where they collaborated on various projects before the latter moved to Paris in 1921. Upon his arrival, Duchamp introduced Man Ray to the Paris Dada group. He remained in their circle and established friendships with several Dada and Surrealist artists until his departure from Paris in 1940.