SURREALISM · ARTIST

Méret Oppenheim

1913–1985 · German-Swiss · Surrealism
The object-maker
Méret Oppenheim

At twenty-three Oppenheim lined a teacup, saucer, and spoon with fur, and made one of the most famous objects of the whole movement: an everyday thing turned faintly disturbing by a single wrong material. The fame nearly swallowed the rest of her long, restless career, which ran from jewelry to fountains.

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Featured works
Object (fur teacup)
Object (fur teacup)
1936
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