Hans Bellmer: Surrealistically Yours

Published on 14 January 2021, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 26 January 2021 - 14:00 (CET) - Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Hans Bellmer’s Les Jeux de la poupée (The Doll’s Games) is a book written with photographs and illustrated by texts. An edition owned by the man who hand-colored it is up for auction.

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), Les jeux de la poupée, 1949, 15 original silver salt photographs... Hans Bellmer: Surrealistically Yours

Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), Les jeux de la poupée, 1949, 15 original silver salt photographs on silver paper, hand-colored with aniline, illustrated with texts by Paul Éluard (1895-1952).
Estimate: €40,000/60,000

t he Surrealists called everything into question. They let out a cry of revolt by using, and even overusing, the illogical and the absurd to create random, jarring art. Les Jeux de la poupée , a book by Hans Bellmer (1902-1975), lent an unsettling weirdness to their work. In 1934 the German-born artist began incessantly focusing on the image of the doll, combining…

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