MERET OPPENHEIM (1913-1985)
MERET OPPENHEIM (1913-1985)

'TETE-DE-POETE' A NECKLACE, DESIGNED 1967, EXECUTED 1977

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MERET OPPENHEIM (1913-1985)
'TETE-DE-POETE' A NECKLACE, DESIGNED 1967, EXECUTED 1977
number 8 from an edition of 9, gold with enamel
pendant: 3½ x 4 in. (8.9 x 10.2 cm.)
back inscribed Meret Oppenheim 1967, MO 8/9 with hallmarks

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cf. Exhibition catalogue, Meret Oppenheim, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, 1997, p. 128 for a drawing of this piece;
D. Venet, From Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2011, p. 191 for an illustration of a similar example.

Examples from this series were exhibited in the traveling exhibition Picasso to Jeff Koons: The Artist as Jeweler at the Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, December 2013 - February 2014, the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, March - July 2013, Benaki Museum, Athens, May - September 2012, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, September 2011 - January 2012. A piece from this series is also in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

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