Double-sided work
Front:
Rêve à Barcelone, 1935
Watercolor, red gouache highlights, ink, colored pastels, pencil, and collage on paper
Signed with initials and dated lower right: “M.O.35”
Counter-signed, titled, annotated in German on a label on the back
Verso:
Surrealist composition with geometric shapes and knots
Ink on paper
Signed with initials and dated lower right: “M.O.35”
Annotated lower left
37.5 ×56cm
Provenance
:
- Paris, Claude Givaudan, “Meret Oppenheim,” October 17 - November 15, 1969 (provenance from the artist)
- Galerie Jacques Tronche, Paris (label)
- Collection Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris
Exhibitions
:
- Lyon, ELAC, "Permanence du regard surréaliste," June 30 - September 22, 1981, p.100
- Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, "La Femme et le surréalisme," November 21, 1987 - February 28, 1988, described in the catalog p. 536
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, “I Surrealisti,” June 7 - September 1989, reproduced in the catalog p. 372 and described p. 640
- Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Die Surrealisten," December 8, 1989 - February 18, 1990, reproduced in the catalog on p. 243
- Paris, Artcurial, "Le Belvédère Mandiargues. André Pieyre de Mandiargues et l'art du XXe siècle," May–June 1990
- Paris, Pavillon des Arts, "Le Surréalisme et l'amour," March 6–June 18, 1997, reproduced in the catalog under no. 112, p. 187, and described on p. 231
- Paris, Centre Pompidou, “The Surrealist Revolution,” March 6 - June 24, 2002, described in the catalog p. 440
Bibliography: B. Curiger, "Meret Oppenheim: Traces of Endured Freedom," ABC Verlag, Zurich, 1989, reproduced and described under no. A17, p. 145
We would like to thank Ms. Soizic Audouard for the information she kindly provided us about this work.
