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Hans Bellmer. La poupée 2 (The Doll 2) [Préparatifs aux Les jeux de la poupée / Maquette for The Doll’s Games]

Hans Bellmer

La poupée 2 (The Doll 2) [Préparatifs aux Les jeux de la poupée / Maquette for The Doll’s Games]

Maquette 1935–36; bound c. 1937

Book (unique maquette) with fifteen gelatin silver prints, nine hand colored, mounted on thin board and pink paper; title page hand-lettered in ink, with a cut-and-pasted hand-colored gelatin silver print; bespoke binding by Hugnet and Christy for Bellmer, with leather over wooden frames, front and back covers each holding pink garter belt, black stocking, white lace fabric, and parchment under glass; decalcomania (gouache transfer) endpapers

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries
Book binder Georges Hugnet, Louis Christy (fabricator)
Medium Book (unique maquette) with fifteen gelatin silver prints, nine hand colored, mounted on thin board and pink paper; title page hand-lettered in ink, with a cut-and-pasted hand-colored gelatin silver print; bespoke binding by Hugnet and Christy for Bellmer, with leather over wooden frames, front and back covers each holding pink garter belt, black stocking, white lace fabric, and parchment under glass; decalcomania (gouache transfer) endpapers
Dimensions pages: 4 3/4 × 3 1/8" (12 × 8 cm); book (closed): 4 13/16 × 3 15/16 × 1 13/16" (12.3 × 10 × 4.6 cm)
Edition One of approximately eight to ten known unique maquettes for "Les jeux de la poupée" (1949) assembled c. 1935–37
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 439.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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