Meret Oppenheim

Swiss, born Germany, 1913 - 1985

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S.M.S. No. 2 (April 1968)

Various Artists, Lee Lozano, Alain Jacquet, Clovis Trouille, Bernard Pfriem, Nicolas Calas, Ray Johnson, Bruce Conner, Marcia Herscovitz, Meret Oppenheim · published 1968 · portfolio of mixed media art objects ·  Accession ID  1992.62.2.1-11.a-c

The toes of two leather lace-up boots face each other and, on closer inspection, are conjoined in this horizontal black and white photograph. The half-laced, ribbon-like laces of both boots are undone and splay out toward us almost symmetrically. The shaft of the left boot curls open, and the tongue lies close to its laces. The shaft of the right boot angles away from us. Both boots are decorated with patterned bands of punched holes over the toes, up the sides of the laces, and back along the upper, and both have square, stacked heels. The artist wrote “9/45” in the lower left corner and signed the lower right, “Meret Oppenheim,” both in graphite.
Meret Oppenheim, Le Couple (The Couple), 1973, gelatin silver print, Gift of Eileen and Michael Cohen, 2011.93.9

Le Couple (The Couple)

Meret Oppenheim · 1973 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2011.93.9