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Meret Oppenheim 'Table with Bird's Legs', designed 1939, produced 1983 image 1
Meret Oppenheim 'Table with Bird's Legs', designed 1939, produced 1983 image 2
Lot 56TP

Meret Oppenheim
'Table with Bird's Legs', designed 1939, produced 1983

4 October 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Meret Oppenheim

'Table with Bird's Legs', designed 1939, produced 1983
Gilded wood, bronze.
63.5 x 67.5 x 53 cm
Produced in conjunction with Thomas Levy, and tabletop executed by Helmut Sasse, Hamburg, Germany. Number 15 from the edition of 30 plus 2 artist's proofs and 2 prototypes. Underside incised Meret Oppenheim/1983 (1939)/15 / 30.

Footnotes

Provenance
Raab Boukamel Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996

Literature
Thomas Levy, Meret Oppenheim: From Breakfast in Fur and Back Again, Hamburg, 2003, pp. 120-121
Ghislaine Wood, ed., Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2014, pp. 270-271

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