Dr. Charlotte Wolff (German-British, 1897 - 1986) was a physician who completed a doctorate in medicine in 1926. A specialist in the study of the human hand, she moved to Paris from her native Germany in the 1930s. While there, she met Aldous Huxley who introduced her to the city’s vibrant artistic and literary circles. She wrote an article featuring analyses of Huxley’s handprints, as well as those of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Marcel Duchamp, which was published in the Surrealist journal Minotaure in 1935. Man Ray’s handprints were included in her follow-up 1936 book Studies in Hand-Reading, as were some photographs of the physician taken by the artist.