Meret Oppenheim (Berlin, 1913 - Basel, 1985) Work recto verso Recto: Dream in Barcelona, 1935 Watercolour, red gouache highlights, ink, coloured pastels, pencil and collage on paper Signed with the initials and dated lower right: "M.O.35". Countersigned, titled and annotated in German on a label on the back Verso: Surrealist composition with geometric shapes and knots Ink on paper Signed with the initials and dated lower right: "M.O.35". Annotated lower left 37.5 ×56cm Provenance : - Paris, Claude Givaudan, "Meret Oppenheim", 17 October - 15 November 1969 (provenance of the artist) - Galerie Jacques Tronche, Paris (label) - Collection Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn, Paris Exhibitions : - Lyon, ELAC, "Permanence du regard surréaliste", 30 June - 22 September 1981, p.100 - Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, "La Femme et le surréalisme", 21 November 1987 - 28 February 1988, described in the catalogue p. 536 - Milan, Palazzo Reale, "I Surrealisti", 7 June - September 1989, reproduced in the catalogue p. 372 and described on p.640 - Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Die Surrealisten", 8 December 1989 - 18 February 1990, reproduced in the catalogue p. 243 - Paris, Artcurial, "Le Belvédère Mandiargues. André Pieyre de Mandiargues et l'art du XXe siècle", May - June 1990 - Paris, Pavillon des arts, "Le Surréalisme et l'amour", 6 March - 18 June 1997, reproduced in the catalogue under n°112 p.187 and described p.231 - Paris, Centre Pompidou, "La Révolution surréaliste", 6 March - 24 June 2002, described in the catalogue p.440 Bibliography: B. Curiger, "Meret Oppenheim: Spuren durchstandener Freiheit", ABC Verlag, Zurich, 1989, reproduced and described under n°A17 p.145 We would like to thank Soizic Audouard for the information she kindly provided about this work.