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Oppenheim’s fur-lined teacup is perhaps the single most notorious Surrealist object. Its subtle perversity was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and the photographer Dora Maar at a Paris café.
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Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure), lit. Object ("The Luncheon in Fur"), known in English as Fur Breakfast or Breakfast in Fur, is a 1936 sculpture by the surrealist Méret Oppenheim, consisting of a fur -covered teacup, saucer and spoon.
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Feb 9, 2016 · In 1936, a 23-year-old Swiss artist named Meret Oppenheim bought a teacup, saucer and spoon from a department store in Paris and wrapped them in the cream-and-tan pelt of a Chinese gazelle. Her...
Oct 21, 2021 · In 1983, Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim produced a series of 12 large-scale drawings etched with miniature versions of 211 artworks created over the course of her decades-long career. The...
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Jan 11, 2018 · Oppenheim was just 22 years old, but already known in Paris for her strange Surrealist canvases, her devilish wit, and her audacity. With typical flair, she arrived at the restaurant wearing an unusual accessory: a bracelet swathed in fur.
The twenty-two year old Basel-born artist, Meret Oppenheim, had been in Paris for four years when, one day, she was at a café with Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. Oppenheim was wearing a brass bracelet covered in fur when Picasso and Maar, who were admiring it, proclaimed, “Almost anything can be covered in fur!”.
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Oppenheim claimed it was a fluke. “I had been making fur covered jewelry to make a little money. I showed a piece to Picasso and Dora Maar and they joked that anything could be covered in fur.”
