Hans Bellmer - Étude pour "Claquemur"

Hans Bellmer

Étude pour "Claquemur"
1950s

Pencil drawing on firm smooth wove paper 31 x 24.7 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'Bellmer' lower right. - The upper margin with an unobtrusive surface roughening; the sheet edges with narrow circumferential remnants of old paper tape.

Preliminary drawing for the etching, title sheet of "Claquemur" (Denoël 38, no year, probably mid 1950s, published by Éditions Le Terrain Vague, Paris.

Certificate

Confirmed to the previous owner by Rodica Aldoux, Paris.

Provenance

Galerie Claude de Muzac, Paris (label on the frame card); Private possession, North Germany