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Hans Bellmer
La Poupée
- Estimate
- £30,000 - 50,000‡♠
£37,500
Lot Details
Paris: Editions GLM, 1936. 10 gelatin silver prints, each mounted to thin board, disbound; printed ivory jacket, rose-coloured endpapers and text pages, publisher’s subscription inserts for Les Jeux de la Poupée and associated printed matter. An unnumbered publishers copy.
1936
Each image: 12.1 x 8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
Each mount: 16.2 x 12.4 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Each mount: 16.2 x 12.4 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
‘Yes, my dolls were the beginning. Obviously there was a convulsive flavour to them because they reflected my anxiety and unhappiness. To an extent they represented an attempt to reject the horrors of adult life as it was in favour of a return to the wonder of childhood, but the eroticism was all-important, they became an erotic liberation for me.’
Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer
Provenance
Literature