Lot 234
  • 234

HANS BELLMER | Sans Titre (Pieds et mains articulés avec jointures à boules)

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Hans Bellmer
  • Sans Titre (Pieds et mains articulés avec jointures à boules)
  • signed Hans Bellmer and dated 52 (lower right)
  • pencil, gouache and charcoal on paper
  • 34,4 x 42 cm; 13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1952.

Provenance

Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 21, 2001, lot 24
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002

Exhibited

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Hans Bellmer, Anatomie du désir, 2006, no. 167, illustrated in the catalogue p. 179

Condition

Executed on wove paper, not laid down, affixed to a sheet of paper along the upper edge. There are minor paper losses at all four corners. This work is in overall very good condition.
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