A defining image of 20th-century Surrealism, Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres brought $12.4 million at Christie’s New York on Saturday – leaping high above the previous record price for a photograph sold at auction. The original image was part of the Surrealist World of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs sale which brought over $42.3 million total for the couple's collection. Based on Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' Baigneuse de Valpinçon, Man Ray's black-and-white photograph of .