Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Hans Bellmer
Mains et bras
Auction Closed
November 21, 12:43 AM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hans Bellmer
(1902 - 1975)
Mains et bras
gouache on canvas
45 ⅝ by 16 ½ in. 116 by 42 cm.
Executed circa 1950-52.
Madame Rodica Aldoux has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Bergman, Chicago (acquired by 1961)
William N. Copley, New York (acquired by 1962)
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 5-6 November 1979, lot 41 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by 1981 by the present owner
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Bellmer Drawings and Sculpture, 1975 (dated 1950)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 14, p. 62, illustrated in color (dated 1950)
Peter Webb and Robert Short, Hans Bellmer, London, 1985, p. 214 (dated 1952)
Sue Taylor, Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety, Cambridge, 2000, p. 163, illustrated; p. 165 (dated circa 1942)
Peter Webb and Robert Short, Death, Desire and the Doll: The Life and Art of Hans Bellmer, Paris, 2006, p. 117
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