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{{Short description|1932 artistic photograph by Man Ray}}
{{Infobox artwork
| title            = Larmes
| image            = Man Ray Glass Tears 1932.png
| other_language_1 = French
| other_title_1    = Larmes de Verre
| other_language_2 = English
| other_title_2    = Glass Tears
| artist           = [[Man Ray]]
| year             = 1932
| medium           = Gelatin silver print
}}
'''''Larmes''''', or '''''Tears'''''; aka '''''Larmes de Verre''''', in English, '''''Glass Tears''''', is a black and white photograph created between 1930 and 1932 by the American photographer [[Man Ray]]. The image was published in the December 1935 issue of the [[surrealist art]] magazine ''[[Minotaure]]'', though a similar image of a single eye had appeared in a 1934 book of Ray's photographs.<ref name="GarciaRay2011">{{cite book|author1=Erin C. Garcia|author2=Man Ray|title=Man Ray in Paris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2RfeOKxwzoC&pg=PA104|year=2011|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-1-60606-060-5|pages=104–}}</ref> A print of ''Larmes'' is held in the collection of the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]] in California.<ref name='Getty'>{{cite web|title=Larmes (Tears)|url=http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/37756/man-ray-larmes-tears-american-1930-1932/|work=Larmes|publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum|accessdate=26 October 2015}}</ref>
The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears. Differing interpretations have been given for the meaning of the photograph. Art historian Erin C. Garcia wrote that Ray "emulated the melodrama that compensated for the lack of dialogue in silent films" in ''Larmes'' and likened the model's eyes to "insect-like creatures with hundreds of legs", and another critic wondered whether the image was "ridiculing female crocodile tears, or pouring scorn on the men who are taken in by such sentimentalism".<ref name="Garcia2010">{{cite book|author=Erin C. Garcia|title=Photography as Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t27mRLH4uowC&pg=PA11|year=2010|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-1-60606-031-5|pages=11–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Man Ray|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNuSb7pFa-sC|year=2005|publisher=Parkstone International|isbn=978-1-78042-471-2|page=44}}</ref>
A 1995 sale of ''Larmes'' valued the image at between $200,000 and $250,000.<ref name="LLC1995">{{cite book|author=New York Media, LLC|title=New York Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DuUCAAAAMBAJ|date=9 October 1995|publisher=New York Media, LLC|page=109|issn=0028-7369}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[List of photographs considered the most important]]
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