Lot 236
  • 236

HANS BELLMER | Sans Titre

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Hans Bellmer
  • Sans Titre
  • signed Bellmer (lower left) and dated 55 (lower right)
  • pencil on paper
  • 21 x 10,5 cm; 8 1/4 x 4 1/8 in
  • Executed in 1955.

Provenance

Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993

Exhibited

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Hans Bellmer, Anatomie du désir, 2006, no. 177, illustrated in the catalogue p. 187

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount along the upper edge with tape and floating in its mount. There are some studio marks in places, most predominately along the extreme edges. This work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is a study for the third print of Madame Edwarda of Georges Bataille.