Hans Bellmer. La poupée (The Doll)

Hans Bellmer

La poupée (The Doll)

Published 1936 (photographs 1934)

Book with ten gelatin silver prints mounted on yellow paper; letterpress text and two line-block illustrations on pink paper; publisher’s original loose orange paper wrapper folded over pink paper cover; pink endpapers

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries
Author Hans Bellmer
Publisher Éditions G.L.M. [Guy Lévis Mano] , Paris [Éditions G.L.M. / Guy Lévis Mano]
Medium Book with ten gelatin silver prints mounted on yellow paper; letterpress text and two line-block illustrations on pink paper; publisher’s original loose orange paper wrapper folded over pink paper cover; pink endpapers
Dimensions pages: 6 1/8 × 4 1/2" (15.5 × 11.5 cm); book (closed): 6 11/16 × 5 1/8 × 3/8" (17 × 13 × 1 cm)
Translator Robert Valençay
Edition 100. Five numbered 1–5 on Japon paper; twenty numbered 6–25 on Normandy Vellum paper; eighty [seventy-five] numbered 26–100 on pink paper. This copy no. 17
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 440.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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