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4109 - Bellmer, Hans
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Bellmer, Hans La Bouche. 1936. Hand-colored gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1970. 16.3 x 16.5 cm. Photographer’s embossed signature in the lower right. Included loose in the deluxe edition of the exhibition catalog *Hommage à Hans Bellmer* (Galerie François Petit, Paris, 1975), no. 15 of an edition of 60. Best known for his La Poupée photographs and sculptures, Bellmer developed a disturbing Surrealist vocabulary in which fragmented bodies were rearranged as sites of desire and psychological instability. This hand-colored image was probably intended for *Les Jeux de la Poupée* but was omitted from the 1936 publication. The deluxe edition accompanied the posthumous exhibition *Hommage à Hans Bellmer*, held at Galerie François Petit in Paris from November 26, 1975, to February 26, 1976. – The catalog covers are slightly soiled; the interior is clean; the photograph is in near-excellent condition. Lit.: Centre Georges Pompidou, ed. Hans Bellmer: Photographe. Paris: Filipacchi, 1983, ill. p. 100. Phillip Prodger. An Alternative History of Photography. Munich: Prestel, 2022, ill. p. 161.
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