Hans Bellmer, La Poupée

1936
Paris: Editions GLM, 1936. 10 gelatin silver prints, each mounted to thin board, disbound; printed ivory jacket, rose-coloured endpapers and text pages, publisher’s subscription inserts for Les Jeux de la Poupée and associated printed matter. An unnumbered publishers copy.
Each image: 12.1 x 8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)
Each mount: 16.2 x 12.4 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.)

Provenance:
Serge Plantureux, Paris
Private Collection, Italy

Literature:
C. Bouqueret, Des années folles aux années noires: La Nouvelle vision photographique en France, 1920-1940, Paris: Marval, 1997, pp. 68-69
A. Roth, et al., The Book of 100 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, New York: PPP Editions, 2001, pp. 88-89
M. Parr & G. Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume 1, London: Phaidon, 2004, p. 106