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When Meret Oppenheim moved to Paris at the age of eighteen, she soon became active as an artist in a circle that included Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Jean Arp, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. The first woman artist associated with the Surrealist group, she made a substantial contribution to the Surrealist Manifesto. It was at Breton’s invitation that she contributed her iconic Object - also known as Déjeuner en fourrure - to the first Surrealist exhibition of 1936. When Alfred H. Barr spotted it at the opening, he promptly acquired it for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Though she …