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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Hans Bellmer

La Toupie

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Hans Bellmer

1902 - 1975


La Toupie

inscribed with the artist's signature and numbered 0/8

painted bronze

height: 21 ¼ in. 61.6 cm.

Conceived in 1938 and cast in bronze in 1968 in an edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Galerie André-François Petit, Paris (commissioned from the artist)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's London, 5 February 2003, lot 197 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Jean Saucet, Hans Bellmer, Paris 1971, p. 80, illustration of another painted cast in color

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie André-François Petit, Hommage à Hans Bellmer, January-February 1975, p. 2, illustration of another painted cast

"Bellmer," Obliques (special issue), 1979, p. 256, illustration of another painted cast

Harry Jancovici, Bellmer, Dessins et sculptures, Paris 1983, p. 31, illustration of another painted cast in color

Peter Webb, Hans Bellmer, London 1985, pl. XXXVIII, illustration of another painted cast in color 

Pierre Dourthe, Bellmer, Le Principe de perversion, Paris 1999, no. 116, p. 87, illustration of another painted cast in color

Sue Taylor, Hans Bellmer, The Anatomy of Anxiety, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2000, no. 6.10, p. 122, illustration of another painted cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Révolution Surréaliste, March-June 2002, p. 246, illustration of another painted cast in color

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York 2016, pp. 16, 19, 22 and 218, illustrated in color (installed in the Four Seasons, San Francisco)