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Le Voyeur
1965
Man Ray
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890
Died: Paris, France 1976
wooden cigar box with inserted door lens
6 1/8 x 6 3/8 x 1 1/4 in. (15.4 x 16.1 x 3.1 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Juliet Man Ray
1983.105.4
Smithsonian American Art Museum
4th Floor, Luce Foundation Center
“Everything I do is done in the spirit of pleasure.” Man Ray, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966
Man Ray loved expressing humor in his work and often hinted at erotic imagery through his assemblages of everyday objects. In Le Voyeur the title immediately conjures up the idea of secretly watching something illicit, but when we look into the lens, all we can see is the back of a cigar box.
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Abstract
Modern art movement - assemblage - box
sculpture
mixed media
wood
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