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Print Works by Hans BELLMER

February 29 Fri. - March 8 Sat. 2008

Toki no wasuremono is pleased to announce our exhibition of print works by Hans Bellmer.

Hans Bellmer had many faces as a dollmaker, a photographer, a painter and a printmaker. The life-sized dolls which he made and their photographs are continuing to have a great influence on subsequent dollmakers. His dark eroticism was sublimated in the print works in after years, started by providing the illustration to Georges Bataille's book, and in the end he left many prints. At this exhibition, we will introduce 20 etchings from the seriesof "A Sade" (1961), and "Morals Essay" (1968).

Hans BELLMER(1902 - 1996)
Hans Bellmer was born in 1902 in Poland. He entered Berlin College of Engineering in 1923, but he didn't graduate. He made the first doll in 1933 under the influence of an automatic doll which he saw in an opera by Jacques Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" in 1932. He self-published his photograph book "The doll" in 1934, and it was praised by surrealists in Paris. Next year, he made the second doll which had spheral joints. He moved to Paris in 1938 and met Duchamp, Ernst and other surrealists. He provided the etching illustrations for Georges Bataille's "The Story of Eyes" in 1946. In 1947 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris. In 1971 a retrospective exhibition at The Centre National d’Art et de Culture (CNAC) in Paris. Died in 1975. In 1983 a retrospective exhibition at Centre Pompidou in 1983 in Paris.
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No. 　 Title Date Technique Image Size
(cm)		 Edition Sign
1 From "a Sade" 1 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
2 From "a Sade" 2 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
3 From "a Sade" 3 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
4 From "a Sade" 4 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
5 From "a Sade" 5 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
6 From "a Sade" 6 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
7 From "a Sade" 7 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
8 From "a Sade" 8 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
9 From "a Sade" 9 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
10 From "a Sade" 10 1961 etching 20x14.3 50 signed
11 From "Petit traite de morale" I 1968 etching 25.6x21.2 150 signed
12 From "Petit traite de morale" II 1968 etching 27.8x21.2 150 signed
13 From "Petit traite de morale" III 1968 etching 27.6x21.2 150 signed
14 From "Petit traite de morale" IV 1968 etching 27.4x21.2 150 signed
15 From "Petit traite de morale" V 1968 etching 27.7x21.2 150 signed
16 From "Petit traite de morale" VI 1968 etching 27.4x21.2 150 signed
17 From "Petit traite de morale" VII 1968 etching 27.8x21.2 150 signed
18 From "Petit traite de morale" VIII 1968 etching 27.4x21.2 150 signed
19 From "Petit traite de morale" IX 1968 etching 27.7x21.2 150 signed
20 From "Petit traite de morale" X 1968 etching 27.7x21.2 150 signed

 
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