Wordplay appears throughout Man Ray’s oeuvre. Examples include L’Âge de colle (“The Age of Glue”), a title created by combining the French words colle (glue) and âge (age) as if they were pasted together in a collage, and Paysage fautif, which plays on the sounds of pêche (peach), paysage (landscape), and nuage (cloud). In a similar manner, the title Pandora combines pain (bread) with doré (“gilded” or “covered in gold”), transforming familiar materials into something entirely new through naming and association.The name Pandora also evokes the figure from Greek mythology, said to be the first woman created by the gods and sent to bring misfortune upon humankind. In this context, it is noteworthy that in 1951 Man Ray photographed Ava Gardner, the star of Albert Lewin’s film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Some of these photographs were used within the film as portrait images. The film, which intertwines elements of Greek mythology and Northern European legend, centers on Pandora, a captivating and enigmatic beauty.Viewed in this light, this work—combining bread and gold—may also be understood as one of Man Ray’s objects expressing an imagined female figure, transformed through poetic association and linguistic play.