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. Admiring Oppenheim’s fur-trimmed bracelets, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything with fur.

2016年2月9日 · In 1936, the surrealist Meret Oppenheim wrapped a teacup, saucer and spoon in fur. In the age of Freud, a gastro-sexual interpretation was inescapable. Even today, the work triggers intense...

The story behind the creation of Object, an ordinary cup, spoon, and saucer wrapped evocatively in gazelle fur, has been told so many times its importance in modernist history transcends the fact it might be apocryphal (of dubious authenticity). The twenty-two year old Basel-born artist, Meret Oppenheim, had been in Paris for four years when ...

2020年11月9日 · Meret Oppenheim’s fur-lined porcelain teacup, Object (1936), made her an international art star. Finding the mutant tableware both delightful and repulsive, Surrealist kingpin André Breton included Object in an exhibition of Surrealist objects at Paris’s Charles Ratton Gallery in 1936.

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.

2018年1月11日 · 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.

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2024年10月16日 · We’re doing this retrospective, let’s look at the fur teacup and its saucer and spoon again, all of us, and see if there are new questions to ask. And in fact, the new question was the old question: what is the fur that covers it?

2023年1月22日 · The story behind the creation of Object, an ordinary cup, spoon, and saucer wrapped evocatively in gazelle fur, has been told so many times its importance in modernist history transcends the fact it might be apocryphal (of dubious authenticity).

2019年10月25日 · You can see that piece now, on the fifth floor of the new MOMA —and you can meet its unruly offspring in “Fur Cup,” an excellent show of sculptural objects at Underdonk, an artist-run space in...