Luce Foundation Center for American Art
Sculpture: 20th century: Le Voyeur
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Le Voyeur 1965 Man Ray 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  
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“Everything I do is done in the spirit of pleasure.” Man Ray, Exhibition Catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966 |
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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. |
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