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Date: 1902-1975

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Description: Painted in 1952.

signed Bellmer and dated 1952 (lower right)

oil on linen

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Dimensions: 64.5 by 64.5cm.

25 3/8 by 25 3/8 in.

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Provenance: Claude Lefevre, Paris (acquired from artist in 1952; sale: Sotheby's, London, 25th June 1986, lot 226)
Private Collection, Pennsylvania
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Exhibited: New York, 123 Watts Gallery, The Coincident Eye: Hans Bellmer, Augustin Fernandez, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1998, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Vestry Arts, Inc., Drawing out of the Void: Hans Bellmer, Pavel Tchelitchew, Steve DiBenedetto & Pieter Schoolwerth, 2004, no. 4, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

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Notes: This work has been requested for the Hans Bellmer retrospective exhibition to be held at Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris from March to June 2006.