Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale
Auction Closed
June 29, 05:15 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
HANS BELLMER
1902 - 1975
LA TOUPIE (SPINNING VERSION)
Inscribed Bellmer and numbered 3/8
Bronze
Height: 13¼ in. (34.3 cm)
Conceived in 1938 and cast in 1968 in a numbered edition of 8 plus 1 artist's proof.
Galerie André-François Petit, Paris
Virginia Lust Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in the 1980s
Jean Saucet, Hans Bellmer, Paris, 1971, illustration of another cast in color p. 80
Hommage à Hans Bellmer (exhibition catalogue), Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, 1975, illustration of another cast p. 2
Hans Bellmer (exhibition catalogue), Centre national d'art contemporain, Paris, 1971-72, illustration of another cast n.p.
"Hans Bellmer," in Obliques, Paris, 1975, illustration of another cast p. 256
Harry Jancovici, Bellmer, Dessins et sculptures, Paris, 1983, illustration of another cast p. 31
Peter Webb & Robert Short, Hans Bellmer, London, 1985, no. 101, illustration of another cast n.p. & in color pl. XXXVIII
Pierre Dourthe, Hans Bellmer: Le Principe de la perversion, Paris, 1999, illustration of another cast n.p.
La Révolution Surréaliste (exhibition catalogue), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2000, illustration in color of another cast p. 246
Sue Taylor, Hans Bellmer, The Anatomy of Anxiety, Cambridge, 2000, illustration of another cast p. 122
Hans Bellmer (exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich & Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2006, illustration in color of another cast p. 109