Multiple . Bronze with a golden-brown patina, in an original wooden box filled with bark mulch. With the artist’s monogram and date engraved on the underside, as well as a stamped number. Also numbered on the bottom of the wooden box. With a facsimile of the sketch for the 1933 edition. From an edition of 100 copies. 11 x 6.5 x 4 cm.
Cast by Venturi, Bologna, and published by Galerie Levy, Hamburg. [KA].
- Meret Oppenheim is regarded as one of the most important figures of Surrealism. - The artist’s works are held in prestigious museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (Objet, 1936), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Kunstmuseum Bern, and the Albertina in Vienna.
With a certificate from Galerie Levy, Hamburg. The work is listed on the artist’s official website (www.meret-oppenheim.com).
LITERATURE: Meret Oppenheim, Dominique Bürgi, Meret Oppenheim. Catalogue Raisonné, in: Bice Curiger, Spuren durchstandener Freiheit, Zurich 1982, CR no. AA17c (not illustrated).

Private collection, Switzerland

In good condition.