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Object

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Also known as: “Le Déjeuner en fourrure”
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  • Meret Oppenheim
    Meret Oppenheim

    The result, Object, was part of the first Surrealist exhibition held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism,” curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in 1936, and it became an overnight art world sensation. MoMA then acquired Object, the museum’s first acquisition…

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    The result, Object, was part of the first Surrealist exhibition held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), “Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism,” curated by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., in 1936, and it became an overnight art world sensation. MoMA then acquired Object, the museum’s first acquisition…

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  • René Magritte: Time Transfixed
    Surrealism
    / Surrealist techniques

    …effect with her best-known piece, Object (1936), a fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.

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    …effect with her best-known piece, Object (1936), a fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.

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