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Lot 93
  • 93

Hans Bellmer (1902 - 1975)

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hans Bellmer
  • Poupée réversible en repos, 1936
  • photograph
Tirage argentique probablement tiré à la fin des années 1940/ début des années 1950. Sous passe-partout et encadré.

Provenance

Timothy Baum
Au propriétaire actuel

Exhibited

L'amour fou. Photography and Surrealism, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Hayward Gallery, Londres, 1985/1986;
Body Doubles, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, 1993;
Behind Closed Doors. The Art of Hans Bellmer, International Center of Photography, New York, 2001;
Surrealism. Desire Unbound, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002.

Literature

Hans Bellmer, Photographe, cat. expo. Centre Pompidou, Paris, Filipacchi, 1983, ill. p. 96 (variante couleur);
Peter Webb, Hans Bellmer, Londres, New York, Quartet Books, 1985, ill. p. 84 pl. div.;
Hans Bellmer / Kunio Iwaya, The Doll, Tokyo, Treville, 2004, ill. s.p.;
Hans Bellmer, Anatomie du désir, cat. expo. Centre Pompidou, Paris, Gallimard, 2006, ill. p. 101 (en haut à droite).

Condition

In excellent condition. The paper does not fluoresce under black light. The original is less contrasty and rich than the illustration in the printed catalogue. A slightly "flat" print.
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