Lot 321
  • 321

Hans Bellmer

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Hans Bellmer
  • Nous suivons à pas lents pour 'Les Jeux de la Poupée'
  • Hand-colored silver print
  • 5 5/8 by 5 1/4 in.
  • 14.3 by 13.5 cm
handcoloured gelatin silver print
14 by 14cm.
Conceived in 1936-37 and printed in 1949.

Provenance

Michel Simon, Paris
Berggruen Galerie, Paris
Soizic Audouard (and sold: Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, April 25, 2007, lot 165)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Années 30 en Europe: 1929-30, 1997, no. 32
Okazaki, Mindscape Museum; Osaka, Musée d'Art de Kintetsu & Musée Municipal d'Art de Kitakyushu, Les Maîtres du Surréalisme: Explorateurs de l'inconscient, 1998, n.n.

Literature

Hans Bellmer & Paul Éluard, Les Jeux de la Poupée, Paris, 1949
José Pierre, Le Belvédère Mandiargues-André Pieyre de Mandiargues et l'art du XXe siècle, Paris, 1990, illustration of another print p. 115
Pierre Dourthe, Bellmer, Le Principe de perversion, Paris, 1999, no. 97, illustration in color of another print p. 73
Peter Webb & Robert Short, Death, Desire and the Doll, New York, 2006, no. 212, illustration of another print p. 147 (titled We follow her with slow steps)
Hans Bellmer 
(exhibition catalogue), Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich & Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2006, no. 222, illustration in color of another print p. 94

Condition

This early hand-colored print, on semi-glossy paper, is in generally very good condition. The photograph is trimmed to the image. In the upper corner of the print are the following: two small losses of emulsion; a crease to the tip of the corner; and a 2-inch area matte-surface area, possibly due to soiling. In raking light, several small, soft creases are visible. The reverse of the print cannot be viewed as it is affixed to the mat.
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