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Hans Bellmer

Les Bas rayés

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Hans Bellmer

(1902 - 1975)


Les Bas rayés

oil on panel

39 ⅜ by 39 ⅜ in.   100 by 100 cm.

Executed in 1959.


Madame Rodica Aldoux has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Daniel Cordier, Paris (acquired by 1971)

Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg 

Acquired from the above in 1975 by the present owner

Paris, Centre national d'art contemporain, Hans Bellmer, 1971-72, no. 111 (not listed in the catalogue)

London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, 1978, no. 17.3, p. 437, illustrated

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 15, p. 63, illustrated in color

Jacques Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 30, illustrated in color (dated 1959)

Obliques, special edition, 1976, p. 265, illustrated in color

Peter Webb and Robert Short, Hans Bellmer, London, 1985, pl. xxxi, illustrated in color; p. 287

Peter Webb and Robert Short, Death, Desire and the Doll: The Life and Art of Hans Bellmer, Paris, 2006, no. 25, n.p., illustrated in color; no. 244, p. 161, illustrated; pp. 162 and 196 (dated circa 1959)