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.

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...

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 …

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 · Just as though things weren’t dada enough, the surrealists had to come to America with their fantastic art. The fur lined cup and saucer with spoon thrown in for good measure gives an idea of all the goofiness started by the surrealist art exhibit in New York.”

2024年10月16日 · The teacup has been in The Museum of Modern Art since 1936, so it seemed like an ideal opportunity. 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?

2021年10月21日 · Picasso joked that she could cover anything with fur—even the cafe’s cup and saucer. Soon afterward, Oppenheim purchased a teacup, saucer and spoon and wrapped them in the fur of a Chinese ...

Meret Oppenheim, was a German-born Swiss artist whose Object (1936), a fur-covered teacup, saucer, and spoon, became an emblem of the Surrealist movement. The piece, created when Oppenheim was just 23 years old, became so famous that it overshadowed the rest of her career.

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...