ID 1164001
Lot 104 | MERET OPPENHEIM (1913-1985)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 200 000
Tisch mit Vogelfüssen
carved and gilded wood and bronze with gold patina
25 ¼ x 16 ½ x 22 3⁄8 in. (64 x 42 x 56.8 cm.)
Executed in 1939; this work is unique
Provenance
Jeanine Restany, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in the 1950s or 1960s, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 198.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
Exh. cat., Meret Oppenheim, Paris, 1984 (illustrated p. 18).
B. Curiger, Meret Oppenheim: Defiance in the Face of Freedom, Zurich, Frankfurt & New York, 1989, no. B8, pp. 47 & 149 (illustrated).
A. Cohen-Solal, Leo and his circle: the life of Leo Castelli, New York, 2010, p. 134.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie René Drouin & Leo Castelli, Exhibition of Fantastic Furniture, July 1939.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Meret Oppenheim: Utställningen pågår, April - May 1967, no. 21.
London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, March - July 2007, no. 9, pp. 270 & 271 (illustrated p. 271; illustrated again on the back of the dust jacket); this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, September 2007 - January 2008; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, March - September 2008.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Surreal Objects: Three-Dimensional Works from Dalí to Man Ray, February - May 2011, p. 179 (illustrated).
Venice, Ca' Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada, The Small Utopia Ars Multiplicata, July - November 2012, no. 419, pp. 257 & 320 (illustrated p. 257).
Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Meret Oppenheim: Retrospective, pp. 204 & 205 (illustrated p. 205); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, August - December 2013.
| Artist: | Meret Oppenheim (1913 - 1985) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Meret Oppenheim (1913 - 1985) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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