Untitled

March 18, 1951

Hans Bellmer
German, born Poland, 1902-1975

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hans Bellmer
Title: Untitled
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1951
Medium: Graphite with smudging on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower right: "Hans Bellmer / 18.111.1951"; inscribed along the bottom: "Ma[zé]" (lower left) and "A18 11" (lower right)
Dimensions: 38.1 × 28.1 cm (15 × 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.306
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Sue Taylor, “Hans Bellmer in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22: 2 (1996), p. 161, fig. 12.
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 10–11, cat. 5 (color ill.).

Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, “The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism,” 1958, n.p. (ill.).
Santa Barbara, CA., University of California, Art Gallery, “Surrealism: A State of Mind, 1924–1965,” 1966, cat. 33 (ill.).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Fantastic Drawings,” 1967–1968, no cat.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Hans Bellmer: Drawings and Sculpture,” 1975, n.p., as “Hands.”
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 118, as Untitled (Hands).

Given by Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1958.

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