Man Ray’s composite image of Juliet Browner and a roughly hewn sculpture transforms the artist’s future wife into an ancient statue or a modern beauty about to emerge from a facial treatment. Following two decades in Paris, where he solidified his reputation as an avant-garde artist through his affiliation with the movements of Dada and Surrealism, the American-born Man Ray took refuge in Los Angeles when the Nazis occupied Paris in 1940. Although the multitalented artist experimented tirelessly with painting, sculpture, film, and mixed media, his photographs remain his best-known works. Juliet was an enduring subject throughout their stay in Hollywood and in Paris, where the couple settled in 1951.