Meret Oppenheim - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 18, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “I never collaborated with the Surrealists. I always did what I wanted and was discovered by them by chance, you might say.”
    —Meret Oppenheim, 1981

    • Provenance

      Gift of the artist
      Dr. Renate Stendhal, San Rafael, California

    • Catalogue Essay

      • 1978 photograph of a rock with initials ‘MO’ and a little worm climbing up and ‘J.LL.’ in the lower left corner, on the reverse a note by Meret and Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Meret explains the image was intended for a poster, they are going to Milan for a big exhibition of “broads” (Weiber), L’alta metà dell’avanguardia, Christiane continues complaining that there is no room left for her because “Meret always has to be the greatest on paper.”
      • Francois Lagarde photograph of Meret Oppenheim, 1978, studying an object on the ground, signed with initials, dated and copyrighted ‘Images Nuit Blanche’, Geneva on the verso
      • Hans Reichel gallery invitation, 1974, with message for Renate Stendhal to come every day from 10:30-12:30 to answer the phone, signed “Salu” (sic)
      • Meret Oppenheim gallery invitation, Juin-Juillet 1976, Parapapillonneries, Lithographies de Meret Oppenheim, Galerie Carmen Cassé, Paris
      • Meret Oppenheim gallery invitation, April-May, 1978?, Oh! A show, Meret Oppenheim, Eugenia Cucalón Gallery, New York, with greetings from Meret in German and English on the reverse, reporting that many people came to the vernissage, “NY is fine, next day to Hamburg” where she will teach a semester at the HFBK (Hochschule für bildende Künste).
      • Meret Oppenheim gallery invitation (tattoo-masked face), March-April, 1981, Meret Oppenheim Arbeiten von 1933-1981, Objekte, Skulpturen, Bilder, Zeichnungen, Grafik, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, signed and dedicated to Renate Stendhal with kind regards
      • Créatis, Meret Oppenheim/Man Ray, issue no. 5, 1977, interview with Meret Oppenheim, photographs by Man Ray

      Author Renate Stendhal was the studio assistant for Meret Oppenheim from 1973 to 1980 — the time when feminists and the art world (re)discovered the artist of Object the “fur-lined teacup.” Renate helped Meret brainstorm and formulate her position on women’s art, write her famous Basel speech, discuss bi-sexuality, and write German and French letters on the topic of feminism to male critics and writers. Stendhal’s account of her Paris years was published as Kiss Me Again, Paris: A Memoir, IFSF Publishing, 2016.

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Group of seven photographs, gallery invitations and periodicals

Please see itemized descriptions in the Catalogue Essay.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$400 - 600 

Sold for $1,524

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