Sinclair Lewis
Man Ray’s approach to the bodies of men as objects was notably less sexualized than the one he took with women. This is borne out in his his photograph of a composition made with a large version of Lampshade and the poets Jean Cocteau and Tristan Tzara. Their bodies are wrapped in dark cloths to isolate their heads as singular, abstract forms, completing the union of animate and inanimate. In his portrait of the novelist Sinclair Lewis, the human form appears as lifeless as the antique oak screw installed behind him in the artist’s studio.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sinclair Lewis
- Artist: Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890–1976 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1925
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 9 3/16 × 6 5/8 in. (23.3 × 16.8 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Bluff Collection, Promised Gift of John A. Pritzker
- Rights and Reproduction: © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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