Hans Bellmer

Portrait de Marcel Duchamp

Artist's Resale Right

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Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 EUR

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Description

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, PARIS

Hans Bellmer

1902 - 1975

Portrait de Marcel Duchamp

with the embossed stamp Hans Bellmer (lower right)

gouache, India ink and pencil on paper

30,4 x 34,8 cm; 12 x 13¾ in.

Executed in 1959.

Rodica Aldoux confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The artist's Estate, Paris

Christie's, Paris, 20 October 2016, lot 39 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Pierre Dourthe, Bellmer, le principe de la perversion, Paris, 1999, p. 221, illustrated in colour p. 223, fig. 285

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