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Hans Bellmer

Katowice 1902 – 1975 Paris

Book: La Poupée. 1936

10 Vintages. Gelatin silver prints. Each approx. 11,7 × 7,8 cm (4 ⅝ × 3 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Hans Bellmer. Book: La Poupée. 1936.

Estimate:

EUR 35,000

 

- 45,000

USD 39,400

 

- 50,600

Sold for:

43,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 25.11.2015

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10 Vintages. Gelatin silver prints. Each approx. 11,7 × 7,8 cm (4 ⅝ × 3 ⅛ in.). Each laid down on thin beige-coloured cardboard, thereupon each paginated in pencil. Each with loose protective sheet. Together with 4 blank pages, half title, title page and 6 text sheets of pink-coloured paper, bound with thread stitching into a softback book (16,7 × 12,8 × 0,8 cm). On half title in black ink signed, dated and with a dedication by Hans Bellmer from 1946. On the 6th side the edition note: "LA POUPÉE ACHEVÉE D'IMPRIMER SUR LES PRESSES G. L. M. LE 1 JUIN 1936 A ÉTÉ TIRÉ A CINQ EXEM­PLAIRES SUR JAPON NUMÉROTÉS DE 1 A 5 20 SUR NORMANDY VELLUM NUMÉROTÉS DE 6 A 25 ET 80 SUR PAPIER ROSE NUMÉROTÉS DE 26 A 100 EXEM­PLAIRE NUMÉRO...“, therein number stamp. In original dust jacket with title imprint. The 2nd and 4th photos in the book are identical. One of 100 editioned copies from the Éditions Guy Lévis Mano, Paris 1936. Each with faint oxidation mottling.

Formerly auction 6.6.2002, Villa Grisebach, Berlin, lot 1115/private collection, USA

Marcel Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris 1959, p. 240/Hans Bellmer, Photographien, Munich 1983, p. 16, 17, 22, 24, 26/Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books. Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, New York 2001, p. 88-89/Surrealism: desire unbound, Jennifer Mundy, Tate Gallery London and Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, London 2001, p. 39, ill. 26, p. 208, ill. 199/Hans Bellmer, by Michael Semff and Anthony Spira, Ostfildern 2006, p. 80–82, 84

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