First published in Vogue Paris on May 1, 1926, Man Ray’s iconic portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse posed with a Baule mask from the Ivory Coast represented an infusion of Surrealist imagery into one of the preeminent fashion magazines of the era. Beautiful and enigmatic, Man Ray’s composition draws on the formal interplay of tonal difference and shadow, while alluding to the Surrealist’s interest in the human unconscious. During the interwar years, African masks and ceremonial objects—many produced as export objects—became not only props and visual referents to European Modernists but increasingly found their way into the mainstream.