Lot 136
136
Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)
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Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)

Desarticulation sur fond rayé

Details
Hans Bellmer (1902-1975)
Desarticulation sur fond rayé
signed 'Bellmer' (lower right) and dated '1958.' (lower left)
oil and pen and India ink on canvas
25¾ x 25¾ in. (65.3 x 65.3 cm.)
Painted in 1958
Provenance
René Rasmussen, Paris, and thence by descent to the present owner in 1979.
Exhibited
Paris, Centre national d'art contemporain, Hans Bellmer, November 1971 - January 1972, no. 108.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Rodica Aldoux has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

‘The body is like a sentence which invites dissection in order that its true meaning may be reconstituted in an endless series of anagrams’
(Bellmer, quoted in C. Jelenski, Hans Bellmer, London, 1972). 

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