print;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 2015,7052.2.6
- Title
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Object: The Mirror of Genoveva
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Series: S.M.S. No. 2
- Description
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Embossed print of the lower part of a fur-covered hand-held mirror with a cloven hoof as the handle and a nose and lips visible within the mirror. Printed in brown and presented in a waxed-paper envelope. 1968
Offset lithograph with embossing on textured wove paper
- Production date
- 1968
- Dimensions
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Height: 262 millimetres (envelope)
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Height: 252 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 172 millimetres
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Width: 178 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This work is one of 11 multiples included in the portfolio 'S.M.S. No. 2' (2015,7052.2.1-11). Oppenheim was a Surrealist artist who is best known for her 1936 work 'Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)', a teacup, saucer and spoon covered with fur.
S.M.S., which stands for 'Shit Must Stop', is a collection of 73 original multiples presented in six portfolios, each of which was produced in an edition of approximately 2000. The project was founded by William Copley (1919-1976), the American artist, writer, collector, patron, publisher and gallerist, who set up The Letter Edged in Black Press with Dmitri Petrov to publish the works. The portfolios were released over the course of 1968 (in February, April, June, August, October and December) and were posted out to subscribers for the affordable price of $125. For more information about the project, see the curatorial comment for 2015,7052.1.1. For more information about this specific portfolio, see 2015,7052.2.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2015
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2015,7052.2.6