Meret Oppenheim
Personnages (Figures), 1951
Signed 'M.O'. and dated '51' (lower right); signed 'Meret Oppenheim', titled '"Personnages,"' dated '1951,' numbered 'C28' and inscribed '51 x 38 cm' (on the reverse)
Gouache on cardboard
51 by 38 cm (20⅛ by 15 in.)
68937
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Executed in 1951. Although referred to as the embodiment of Surrealist femme-enfant, Oppenheim persistently challenged society's rigid notions of male and female and advocated 'androgyny of the mind'. In Personnages...
Executed in 1951. Although referred to as the embodiment of Surrealist femme-enfant, Oppenheim persistently challenged society's rigid notions of male and female and advocated 'androgyny of the mind'. In Personnages she depicts five overlapping figures of unidentified gender, painted in a highly stylized and abstracted manner.