Meret Oppenheim
Feen-Geschichte (Fairy Story), 1963
Signed 'M.O' and dated 'III.63' (lower left); titled 'Feengeschichte' and stamped 'MERET LA ROCHE-OPPENHEIM NIESENWEG 14 CH3626 HÜNIBACH' (on the reverse)
Pencil and oil crayon on paper
41.8 by 30 cm (16½ by 11¾ in.)
69140
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Executed in 1963. Oppenheim had a passion for fairy tales and magic. As a mature artist, she often referred to diaries, sketchbooks, and doodles she created as a teenager to...
Executed in 1963. Oppenheim had a passion for fairy tales and magic. As a mature artist, she often referred to diaries, sketchbooks, and doodles she created as a teenager to visualize and reimagine stories and characters from her past. Comprising subject matter and formal elements that encourage new associations, her drawings from the 1950s and 60s are a continuation of her practice from when she was living in Paris in the 1930s.