LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print

Measurements:

11.69 in. (29.70 cm.) (height) by 7.68 in. (19.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in red ink on the mount, inscribed 'La Poupée, par Hans Bellmer' and initialed by André Breton in red ink and stamped '27' and '792' on paper labels on the reverse, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., and Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition labels and an Ubu Gallery label on the reverse

Condition:

mounted and framed

Literature:

Andre Breton, la beauté convulsive (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1991), p. 316 (this print); Foto: Modernity in Central Europe (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2007), pl. 58 (this print); Die Puppe (Karlsruhe: Thomas Eckstein, 1934), pl. 3 (reversed); Minotaure, No. 6, Winter 1934, p. 30; Alain Jouffroy, Bellmer (William and Noma Copley Foundation, nd. [1961]), pl. 3 (reversed) ; Peter Webb and Robert Short, Hans Bellmer (London, 1985), pl. 34 (reversed)

Provenance:

The collection of André Breton, Paris; Calmels Cohen, Paris, André Breton, 42, rue Fontaine, 15 April 2003, Lot 5042; Acquired from Ubu Gallery, New York, 2004