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Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Hans Bellmer

1902 - 1975


Mille filles

signed Bellmer (lower right); signed HANS BELLMER, dated 1939 and inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on board

48.4 by 30 cm. 19 by 11⅞ in.

Executed in 1939.

Private Collection, Toulouse (acquired from the artist in the 1940s)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

(possibly) William and Noma Copley Foundation, Chicago

Christie's, London, 29 June 1992, lot 37

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Peter Webb, Death, Desire and the Doll: The Life and Art of Hans Bellmer, London, 1985, p. 106