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Bellmer, Hans
(1902-1975)La Bouche

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

La Bouche. 1936. Hand-colored gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1970. 16,3 x 16,5 cm. Photographer's embossed signature in lower right. Presented loose in the deluxe edition of the exhibition catalog Hommage à Hans Bellmer (Galerie François Petit, Paris, 1975), no. 15 from an edition of 60.

Best known for his La Poupée photographs and sculptures, Bellmer developed a disquieting Surrealist vocabulary in which fragmented bodies were rearranged as sites of desire and psychic instability. This hand-colored image was probably intended for Les Jeux de la Poupée but omitted from the 1936 publication. The deluxe edition accompanied the posthumous exhibition Hommage à Hans Bellmer, held at Galerie François Petit, Paris, from November 26, 1975 to February 26, 1976.

Literatur: 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.