Her name is tied to one of the most iconic pieces of twentieth-century art: Le déjeuner en fourrure (1936), or coffee cup, saucer, and spoon covered in Chinese gazelle fur. The name of the piece had been chosen by André Breton. Oppenheim worked with surrealist art, and reinvented in paradoxical, ironic fashion everyday objects, giving them new interpretation by switching their meaning and causing, in the viewer, disconcerting, even disturbing analogies. She was also a muse, though one far from the canons of conventional femininity. She once posed nude for Man Ray.
