Lot Essay
This is an untrimmed proof print of plate 5 in Les Jeux de la Poupée.
Details
HANS BELLMER (1902-1975)
The Second Doll (Eluard V)
Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. 1935. Nr. 5 in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso; typed Malerei und Photographie im Dialog exhibition label affixed to the reverse of the mount. 5 5/8 x 5 3/8in. on 7 x 5 7/8in. sheet, cornered on the mount. Framed.
The Second Doll (Eluard V)
Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. 1935. Nr. 5 in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso; typed Malerei und Photographie im Dialog exhibition label affixed to the reverse of the mount. 5 5/8 x 5 3/8in. on 7 x 5 7/8in. sheet, cornered on the mount. Framed.
Provenance
Galerie Werner Kunze, Berlin;
via agent to the present owner.
via agent to the present owner.
Literature
Les Jeux de la Poupée, pl. V.; Malerei und Photographie im Dialog, p.385 (exhibition checklist); Hans Bellmer (Webb), pls. ii and 58; Hans Bellmer, Paris: Editions Filipacchi, 1971, p. 86; A Hans Bellmer Miscellany, p. 52, pl. IV; Die Spiel der Puppe, (Ullstein Kunstbuch), pl. 5; La Photographie, p. 214; Hans Bellmer Photographe, p. 86.
Exhibited
Malerei Und Photographie im Dialog, May 12-July 24, 1977, Kunsthaus Zurich.