Meret Oppenheim (German-Swiss, 1913 - 1985) was a multidisciplinary artist whose work embodied tenets of Dada and Surrealism. Her 1936 assemblage Object, a fur-lined cup, saucer, and spoon, became an iconic symbol of Surrealism and was the first work by a female artist acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1946. Oppenheim met Man Ray through their mutual friend Alberto Giacometti shortly after she moved to Paris in 1932. In the two years that followed, she posed for many of his photographs, including the well-known image of Oppenheim standing nude behind a large printing press.