Lot 4
  • 4

Hans Bellmer

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hans Bellmer
  • SANS TITRE (ÉTUDE POUR LA PHILOSOPHIE DANS LE BOUDOIR DE SADE)
  • signé Bellmer (en bas à gauche), daté 63 (en bas à droite) et signé du monogramme HB (en haut à droite)
  • mine de plomb rehaussé de gouache blanche sur papier
  • 59 x 45 cm; 23 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie André-François Petit, Paris

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Hans Bellmer, 1970, no. 43
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Londres, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hans Bellmer, Anatomie du désir, 2006, no. 216, illustré p. 212

Literature

Pierre Dourthe, Bellmer, le principe de perversion, Paris, 1999, no. 330

Condition

Executed on grey wove paper laid on board. There are artist's pinholes in each corner. There are five repaired tears: a 4 cm one along the right part of the upper edge, a 4 cm one and a 2 cm one in the lower right corner, a 4 cm one in the lower left corner and a 4 cm one in the upper part of the left edge. There is a scratch in the lower left part of the work and a very thin 5 cm superficial tear running vertically in the background in the upper right quadrant. The edges of the sheet are slightly irregular. Apart from a very minor dirty spot in the hair of the figure, this drawing is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Bellmer' (lower left), dated '63' (lower right) and monogrammed 'HB' (upper right), pencil and white gouache on paper. Executed in 1963.