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HANS BELLMER | LA TOUPIE (SPINNING VERSION)

Auction Closed

June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

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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