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year 1935
material leather, metal
source title Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today
info In 1936 the young Meret Oppenheim met Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar at the Café de Flore in Paris wearing a fur covered bracelet. The bracelet – which the artist fashioned using a brass tube – so delighted her companions that a conversation ensued during which Oppenheim’s best known work, a fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon, was conceived. André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, christened this Le déjeuner en fourrure (Lunch in fur, 1936,) and to this day it remains one of the most frequently cited Surrealist pieces.
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year 1935
material leather, metal
source title Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924–Today
info In 1936 the young Meret Oppenheim met Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar at the Café de Flore in Paris wearing a fur covered bracelet. The bracelet – which the artist fashioned using a brass tube – so delighted her companions that a conversation ensued during which Oppenheim’s best known work, a fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon, was conceived. André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, christened this Le déjeuner en fourrure (Lunch in fur, 1936,) and to this day it remains one of the most frequently cited Surrealist pieces.
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