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Signed in pencil and stamped number '28' on the last page of book. From the Catalogue: Covered in soft black construction paper adorned with a feminine pink title band, and filled with delicate pages accentuated by rapturously colored photographs, Hans Bellmer’s Les jeux de la poupée (The Games of the Doll) is the perfect Surrealist object. Signed in pencil and stamped number '28' on the last page of book. Les jeux de la poupée (The Games of the Doll), 1949.
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Lot 7. BELLMER Hans, 1902-1975 (Germany). Title : Les jeux de la poupée (The Games of the Doll). Category : Books & Manuscripts. Medium : : 15 hand-colored gelatin silver prints plus 2 trimmed, hand-colored gelatin silver prints, all mounted within the artist’s book, N. 28/136 BELLMER Hans,Les jeux de la poupée (The Games of the Doll),Phillips,New York. WESTON Edward - Untitled (Tina on the Azotea, with Kimono). LVAREZ BRAVO Manuel - La Tolteca. For all results before 1999, the Euro exchange rate has been calculated on the 01/01/1999.
Hans Bellmer (1902 - 1975). Lot 193: Les Jeux de la Poupée (The games of the doll),1949. Literature: Obliques, Bellmer, pp. 99 and 101-104 Princeton University Press, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, pp. 203, 212 and 214-215 Taylor, Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety, pls. 2, . 4 and . 6 for variants. Request more information.
A very good copy in the original wrappers, with 15 hand-coloured photographs by bellmer. Bellmer's influence on later image-makers, from Frederick Sommer and Ralph Eugene Meatyard to Cindy Sherman, is considerable' (101 Books). Actually begun in 1936-1937, but delayed by the war, Les Jeux de la Poupée was conceived entirely by Bellmer: from carving the doll, to designing the book's maquette and lay-out, and hand-colouring every photograph. It is a profound investigation of the nature of desire.
Les Jeux de la Poupée,1935, printed 1949. Hand-colored gelatin silver print. Les jeux de la poupée',1949. cut out photograph by Hans Bellmer. The photographs approximately 5 1/2 by 5 1/2 in. (14 by 14 c. Estimate
Lit: Hans Bellmer, Les Jeux de la Poupée (Paris 1949) Alain Jouffroy, Hans Bellmer (Chicago . Hans Bellmer, Die Puppe (Berlin 1962), p. 9-119, 188-9; exh. catalogue Hans Bellmer, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, November 1971-January 1972, . 2. Bellmer made his first doll in 1933 (see the note on T01157) and took a series of photographs of it in various states of dismemberment and rearrangement, and 'with the necessary background of vice and enchantment', which was first published as a book Die Puppe in Karlsruhe in 1934, with a foreword by himself. The book consists of a foreword by Bellmer followed by fifteen coloured photographs, of which fourteen (numbered from I, II onwards) have texts by Eluard.
