LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.43 in. (90.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed M.O and dated V.73; titled La condition humaine on the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami Beach, Bass Museum of Art & Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, . Meret Oppenheim. Beyond the Teacup , 1996-97, cat. no.78, illustrated;. Bern, Museum of Fine Arts & Norway, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter,. Meret Oppenheim-Retrospective , 2006-07, illustrated;. Vienna, Kunstforum; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau & Lille, Lille métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, . Meret Oppenheim. Retrospective , 2013-14, illustrated;. New York, Sotheby's,. Cherchez la Femme: Women and Surrealism, 2015. cat. no.2, illustrated. . .

Literature:

Bice Curiger, . Meret Oppenheim. Defiance in the Face of Freedom , Zurich, 1989, no.W205, illustrated p.214.

Provenance:

DB Kunsthalle, Berlin. Acquired from the above by David Bowie before 1992.