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“... Meret Oppenheim​ ’s Ma Gouvernante, a pair of white leather pumps trussed up like a Sunday roast and served on a silver platter, is an allegory of other-womanhood. In 1933, three years before she exhibited Ma Gouvernante at her first solo show, Oppenheim began an affair with Max Ernst ...”

“... it then). In any case, today the women of Surrealism are esteemed as much as the men, if not more. Meret Oppenheim received a major retrospective last year, and women Surrealists featured prominently in the 2022 Venice Biennale, whose title, ‘The Milk of Dreams’, was borrowed from Leonora Carrington.Surrealism also persisted in literature, clearly in ...”

“... to speak of a patch at all – a sneaking admiration for Joseph Beuys, a distinct penchant for Meret Oppenheim. Sewell is by no means ‘encamped’. His savagings know no distinction of genre, though savagings do predominate here. I don’t think there’s much he doesn’t understand: I can imagine him, in a locked room, at gunpoint, writing ...”

“... flavoured mixture of pagan-Judaeo-Christian-Freudian symbols. By contrast, the Jungian ambience of Meret Oppenheim’s native Zurich provided the impulse for her works expressing her lot as a woman: such marvellous, mischievous pieces as the famous fur cup and saucer (Petit déjeuner en fourrure) and the dish of white stiletto shoes upended to become ...”