![]() ![]() ![]() Having gotten her start making ostensibly functional things, Oppenheim was wearing a bracelet she designed for the Italian company Schiaparelli, a thick metal bangle coated in ocelot fur. Made famous after appearing in the landmark exhibition “Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism” at MoMA the year Object was made, 1936, when Oppenheim was just twenty-three, the familiar assemblage, comprising a teacup, saucer, and spoon, all clad in fur, was conceived one day while Oppenheim was enjoying tea at a Parisian café, where she was joined by Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. ![]() Her retrospective, “Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition,” opens March 25 at the Menil Collection in Houston-it debuted last year at the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland and travels next fall to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Meret Oppenheim’s furred sculpture Object is widely considered the Surrealist object par excellence. ![]()
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