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Herbert Lust: Collector, Scholar, Friend
HANS BELLMER (1902-1975)
Les quatre femmes
Details
HANS BELLMER (1902-1975)
Les quatre femmes
signed and dated '1940 Bellmer' (lower left)
pencil on paper
8 ½ x 11 1⁄8 in. (21.7 x 28.4 cm.)
Drawn in 1940
Les quatre femmes
signed and dated '1940 Bellmer' (lower left)
pencil on paper
8 ½ x 11 1⁄8 in. (21.7 x 28.4 cm.)
Drawn in 1940
Provenance
Joë Bousquet, Paris.
Acquired by the late owner, by 1975.
Acquired by the late owner, by 1975.
Literature
C. Jelenski, intro., Les dessins de Hans Bellmer, Paris, 1966, p. 38 (illustrated; titled Quatre personnages).
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, The Erotic Art of Bellmer, January-February 1974, no. 55.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Bellmer Drawings and Sculpture, May-June 1975.
Purchase, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, The Private Eye: 20th Century Art from New York and Connecticut Collections, April-June 1984.
New York, Virginia Lust Gallery, Hans Bellmer: A Retrospective, March-May 1989, no. 45.
New York, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, Hans Bellmer, May-October 1990, p. 18 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and London, Whitechapel Gallery, Hans Bellmer, March-November 2006, p. 265, no. 80 (illustrated, p. 120).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Bellmer Drawings and Sculpture, May-June 1975.
Purchase, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, The Private Eye: 20th Century Art from New York and Connecticut Collections, April-June 1984.
New York, Virginia Lust Gallery, Hans Bellmer: A Retrospective, March-May 1989, no. 45.
New York, Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, Hans Bellmer, May-October 1990, p. 18 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and London, Whitechapel Gallery, Hans Bellmer, March-November 2006, p. 265, no. 80 (illustrated, p. 120).
Further Details
Rodica Aldoux has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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