Lot 132
- 132
Hans Bellmer
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description
- Hans Bellmer
- Pour Sade III
- signed Bellmer (lower right)
- pencil and gouache on paper
- 10 1/2 x 9 in.
Provenance
André-François Petit, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer & Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft, Hans Bellmer, Zeichnungen und graphik, 1967, no. 79
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, The erotic art of Bellmer: paintings, sculptures, drawings, 1974, no. 37
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Bellmer, drawings and sculpture, 1975, illustrated in the catalogue n.n.
Paris, Galerie François Petit, Hommage à Hans Bellmer, 1975-76, illustrated in the catalogue n.n.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dada and Surrealism reviewed, 1978, no. 16 (possibly)
Cologne, Museum der Stadt, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, 1981, no. 293, illustrated in the catalogue p. 382
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, The erotic art of Bellmer: paintings, sculptures, drawings, 1974, no. 37
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Bellmer, drawings and sculpture, 1975, illustrated in the catalogue n.n.
Paris, Galerie François Petit, Hommage à Hans Bellmer, 1975-76, illustrated in the catalogue n.n.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Dada and Surrealism reviewed, 1978, no. 16 (possibly)
Cologne, Museum der Stadt, Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, 1981, no. 293, illustrated in the catalogue p. 382
Condition
Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount at intermittent points along the extreme edges. The sheet is slightly curved to the lower part of the composition. There is some mount staining along the upper and left edges. There are some small areas of paper skinning predominately above the men head of the figure on the left, and at approx 8 cm from the lower edge and 9 cm from the left edge. There are some minor creases towards the centre of the upper edge. The sheet is light stained. This work is in good condition.
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