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Hans Bellmer
Petit traité de morale (A Little Moral Treat)
- Estimate
- $2,000 - 3,000
$2,394
Lot Details
The complete set of 10 etchings in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins and the sheets folded (as issued), all contained in the original mauve cloth-covered portfolio and mauve slipcase.
1968
15 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (38.7 x 29.2 cm)
All signed in pencil, copy number '96' on the justification (the edition was 150, there were also 20 in Roman numerals), published by Éditions Georges Visat, Paris.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
Including: Dialogue Entre un prêtre et un moribond; Aline et valcour; Les fortunes de la vertu; Les 120 journées de sodome; Notes pour la nouvelle justine; L'Aigle mademoiselle; Idée sur les Romans; Les crimes de L'amour; La philosophie dans le boudoir and Juliette ou les prospéritiés du vice
Hans Bellmer's depictions of provocative sexuality and subversive desire were created in response to the Nazi government’s official standards of beauty, which labeled artists who did not conform as degenerate. Escaping to France, Bellmer joined the Surrealists. Born in Poland, in 1924 he abandoned his studies and began a typographic apprenticeship at the Malik publishing house. Between 1925 and 1926, he opened a studio for advertising drawings in Berlin and from then on created almost only erotic subjects. He also started making fragmentary mannequins, of which he photographed and is most know for today. Bellmer is regarded as the main exponent of ‘Fantastic Realism’.
Hans Bellmer's depictions of provocative sexuality and subversive desire were created in response to the Nazi government’s official standards of beauty, which labeled artists who did not conform as degenerate. Escaping to France, Bellmer joined the Surrealists. Born in Poland, in 1924 he abandoned his studies and began a typographic apprenticeship at the Malik publishing house. Between 1925 and 1926, he opened a studio for advertising drawings in Berlin and from then on created almost only erotic subjects. He also started making fragmentary mannequins, of which he photographed and is most know for today. Bellmer is regarded as the main exponent of ‘Fantastic Realism’.
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