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Hans Bellmer Signed Surrealistic Etching Erotic Women

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Hans Bellmer Signed Surrealistic Etching Erotic Women
This surrealist scene features several women who appear to be melting and melding into one another. Artist: Hans Bellmer Signature: In pencil, lower right Medium: Etching on paper, with deckled edges top and bottomPaper Size: 19 3/4 x 26 inchesCondition: ExcellentBiography: * Draftsman, painter, constructor of dolls, etcher, lithographer and writer, deeply involved with erotic fantasy. Born in Katowice, Siliescia. Obligated by his father to study engineering at the Berlin Polytechnic (1922-24), but became friendly with painters George Grosz and Otto Dix. Abandoned his studies and began to work as a typographer and book binder, then as an industrial draftsman in an advertising agency. Gave up all German State activities after the rise to power of the Nazis in 1933, and began to construct"artificial girls," published by Die Puppe in 1934. Fled to Paris in 1938, and began his life-long contact with the Surrealists. Drawings, paintings and printworks full of erotic variations and themes of the female body, including illustrations for the poems of Georges Hugnet Oeillades ciselees en Brances 1939. Lived in Medi 1942-46, where he had his first one-man exhibition at the Librairie Silvio Trentin, Toulouse, in 1944, then returned to Paris. Worked until death, constantly fascinated with erotic images and possibilities. Major retrospective exhibition at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris 1971-72. Died in Paris in 1975. [Source: Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Park-Bernet, London 1981, pp. 44-45.] *