Vertical Nude Prints

Artist: Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian, 1493-1527) Title: "Venere e Amore sui Delfini (Venus and Cupid on Dolphins)" *Monogram signed by Dente in the plate (printed signature) lower left Circa: 1515-1520 (second state of three) Medium: Original Engraving on laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Antonio Salamanca, Rome, Italy Reference: Bartsch XIV, page 244, No. 324; Passavant VI, page 69, No. 32; Le Blanc, II, page 111, No. 16; Imolesi Pozzi pages 71-72, 113, No. 10 Framing: Recently beautifully framed, the sheet is museum mounted, floated over a 100% cotton rag mat in a modern gold moulding and Museum glass Framed size: 16.88" x 13.07" Sheet size: 10.63" x 6.94" Condition: Thread margins. A strong impression in excellent condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Périgueux, France. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Venus and Cupid riding two sea monsters, Cupid raises an arrow in his right hand, two heads representing wind in the clouds above". The engraver's monogram "SR" lower left. Published by Antonio Salamanca (1478-1562) in Rome, Italy with his address printed lower right: "Ant. Sal. Exc.". No watermark found. This engraving is after a drawing by Italian artist Raphael aka Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483-1520). "This engraving by Marco Dente is after a design by Raphael, now lost, used by Giulio Romano for his fresco on the south wall of the Stufetta of cardinal Bibbiena - a small room in the Apostolic Palace, at the Vatican, that originally served as a washroom for the cardinal. The engraving differs from the fresco in some details, such as the cityscape in the background and the two winds above, which may indicate that these elements were present in Raphael's drawing. " - Christie's, London Biography: Marco Dente da Ravenna (1493–1527), usually just called Marco Dente, was an Italian engraver born in Ravenna in the latter part of the 15th Century. He was a prominent figure within the circle of printmakers around Marcantonio Raimondi...

Andy Warhol Studies for a Boy Book 1956: A rare sought-after, 1950s Andy Warhol designed poster invitation published on the occasion of: Warhol's 'Studies for a Boy Book', held at the Bodley Gallery and Bookshop Feb. 14 - March 3, 1956. A rare early Warhol collectible that seldom comes to market. Not to be passed upon. Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper. Framed in glass. Dimensions: 15.75 x 13.5 inches (40 x 34.3 cm). Framed dimensions: 24h x 26w inches. Good overall vintage condition; fold-lines as originally issued; Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Rare. With the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Authorization ink-stamps on the reverse; initialed 'T.J.H.' by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation and annotated 'XX-07.16' and 'PM19.0242' in pencil on the reverse. Provenance: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Further Background: "In the 1950's Warhol self-published a large series of artist’s books & hold parties at Serendipity 3, a restaurant and ice cream parlor on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where his friends would help him hand color his books. In 1956, he presented a solo exhibition at the Bodley Gallery called Studies for a Boy Book. These sketchbook drawings of portraits of young men and erotic portrayals of male nudes contrasted with the work of other contemporary gay artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, who considered Warhol 'too swish.' (source: The Andy Warhol Museum) Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago Further background: Warhol’s career began as a commercial illustrator on New York’s Madison Avenue in 1949, during the massive post-war economic boom. His arrival additionally coincided with an extensive change in the motivations and strategies behind advertising, utilizing applied psychology to influence American consumers to purchase products. This stint as an ad man would further his Pop interest in cultural commercialization and start his artistic career; thus began the first chapter of Warhol’s oeuvre, dominated by charming and light-handed ink drawings. As a master of line and contour, Warhol’s consistent and unique drawings and designs piqued the interest of his clients, earning him commissions and collaborations with some of the biggest brands of the day: Tiffany & Co., Columbia Records, and Vogue, to name a few. Though stylistically different from the Pop, these early drawings offer a glimpse at an artist well on his way to establishing an art movement that would change the way the world conceived of contemporary art and its connection to pop culture, morphing from his early successes in the commercial art scene. The simple yet sophisticated line drawings contain... his favorite things: cherubs, shoes, cats, and often young men. Across these drawings and hand-colored prints, we see Warhol as a compulsive creator, documenting life and fantasy with the stark clarity of ink on paper." (source: Phillips) _ Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical reproduction, Pop Art king, Andy Warhol created some of the 20th century’s most iconic images. Warhol was widely influenced by popular & consumer culture, with this being evident in some of his most famous works: 32 Campbell's soup cans, Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe & Mick Jagger, for example. Rejecting the standard painting and sculpting modes of his era, Warhol embraced silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. The artist mentored Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and continues to influence contemporary art around the world: His most bold successors include Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons. Warhol has been the subject of exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou, among other institutions. Related Categories 1950s Andy Warhol. Vintage Andy Warhol. Mid century modern. Pop Art. Andy Warhol advertising...

"For Adults Only I" is an exquisite offset lithograph print with colors of an alluring corseted and stockinged nude female in a confrontational pose filling the frame inviting the vi...

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Artist and Model, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Size: 33 in. x 24 in. (83.82 cm x...

Hand Signed. Edition of 50 pieces. Very good condition.

Larry Rivers Republique De Guinee, for Andy Warhol, Inscribed in ink to Andy Warhol, 1977 Color Pochoir, Acrylic Airbrush and Pencil on paper with deckled edges Hand signed and inscr...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Minotaure Mourant (after Bloch 198) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype halftone screen pr...

Medium: original soft ground etching. Catalogue reference: Delteil 12. Executed in 1906, this is a lifetime impression published in 1909 in Berlin by Cassirer for "Kunst und Kunstler...

Andy Warhol’s TRASH, 1970 US 1-sheet movie poster. Archival linen-backed • Very Fine condition • Ready to frame. Photographer: Jack Mitchell. Grade A condition. Bring a piece o...

Signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 50. Female nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images. Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chica...

Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm 1924 Edition of 100 This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...

Limited edition of 66 prints, 50 in arab numbers and 16 in roman numbers, all hand signed and numbered. Excellent condition.

A lithograph reproduction from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection after the Pablo Picasso painting "Nu se tordant les cheveux". The original painting was completed in 1952. In the...

Woman from the Back is an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006). Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 50. ...

Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...

A very good impression of this color lithograph. Signed and numbered 51/180 in pencil. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Leon Amiel, New York, and XXe Siècle, Paris. From the s...

Nude is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Marcantonio. Hand-signed in the lower right in pencil. Good conditions. Edition of 50.

Woman from the backis an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006). Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered edition,10/20. In good condition ...

After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp. Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...

Nude of Woman is a Lithograph realized by Carlo Marcantonio in 1970s. This original print is hand signed. This is an edition of 50 prints plus some artist's proofs, numbered 21/50. Prints are the most affordable and reasonably priced artworks...

Martin Barooshian, American (1929 - 2022) - Nude Figure Study, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed in pencil, Image Size: 9.5 x 15.75 inches, Size: ...

Female nude etching, from a series of 6 male and 6 female images. Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 19...

The Roman numeral edition of 25, aside from the Arabic numeral edition of 99. Signed, titled and numbered VI/XXV in pencil, lower margin. With the artist's blind stamp lower left. Pu...

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - La femme au poisson, Year: 1972, Medium: Etching, signed in pencil, Image Size: 6 x 5.5 inches, Size: 12.5 x 11 in. (31.75 x 27.94 cm), Descript...

Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Flûtiste et Jeune Fille au Tambourin (after Bloch 213) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype...

Jean Cocteau White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal. Original Handcolored Lithograph...

Artist: Donald Saff Title: Year: 1980 Medium: Etching with Aquatint, Hand signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 150 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm) bears publishers blindst...

Artist: Leonor Fini Title: Femmes en Costumes Year: c.1970 Medium: Original color engraving Edition: Inscribed E.A (Epreuve d'Artiste, Artist Proof) in pencil Paper: Arches paper Ima...

Woman from Shoulders is an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006). Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered edition, I/X. In good condition ...

Nude woman is an original modern artwork realized in mid-20th century by the artist Guglielmo Coladonato. Lithograph on paper. Signature an hand written dedication on the lower ma...

Saint Clair Cemin, Brazilian (1951 - ) - Nude Woman in Bed, Year: 1978, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 9/30, Image Size: 5.75...

Ex libris Olav Tähe Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm

Artist: After Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Title: Minotaure blesse VI (Bloch 196) Year: 1992 Medium: Reproduced from the original edition using the grain Autotype halftone screen process by Druck- und Verlag GmbH, 4200 Oberhausen, Germany; lithographically printed by Druck- und Verlag GmbH on japon handmade 200 g/sqm paper by created by Richard de Bas in Ambert, France and imported by Japico Drissler Feinpapiere, Frankfurt, Germany. Paper Size: 18 x 12.75 inches; a size slightly reduced from the original Vollard edition for differentiation Condition: Excellent Inscription: Artist’s signature posthumously lithographically reproduced from the original Vollard edition, and numbered in pencil by the curators of the Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. 168/300. Notes: Published by Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany in cooperation with the Society for the Promotion of the museum in 1992 and the Fundación Picasso; printed by Plitt Druck- und Verlag GmbH, 4200 Oberhausen, Germany. The following is a German to English translation of the original text issued by the Municipal Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany in the following from which this graphic is a part, “In order to give a broad public access to this unique print work by Pablo Picasso in its entirety and at the highest quality level, the support group for the city. Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr initiated and significantly supported the new edition of the “Suite Vollard.” The reprint of the "Suite Vollard" includes a limited edition of 300 copies of 100 loose sheets each in a linen cassette. The copies were numbered from 1 to 300 on the leader sheet. The reproductions were produced in grain screen mode, a process in which which eliminates the traditional line grid and achieves maximum originality. The paper was hand-made specifically for this work by Richard de Bas in Ambert, France, one of the most traditional paper mills in Europe. The paper for the original edition also comes from this factory. The quality Blane narcisse, belin, 200 g/sqm was selected and imported from Japico Drissler Feinpapiere, Frankfurt. Reproduction and paper format has been slightly reduced compared to the original edition. The technical development and overall production was carried out by Plitt Druck- und Verlag GmbH, 4200 Oberhausen.” PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Spanish painter and sculptor is one of the most recognized figures of twentieth century art. During his artistic career, which lasted more than 75 years, he created thousands of works using all kinds of mediums. He changed art more profoundly than any other artist of his time. First famous for pioneering cubism...

Nude of Woman is an Etching realized by Edouard Chimot in 1930s. The very beautiful artwork is in good condition. No Signature. Represents a nude young lady. Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June 1959) was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career reached its peak in the 1920s in Paris, through the publication of fine quality art-printed books. As artist his own work occupies a characteristic place, but as editor also his role was extremely important...

Nude is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s. Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner. Good conditions. Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June...

Nude is an original etching realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1960s. Sheet dimension: 32.5 x 25 cm; Image dimensions: 10 x 14.5 cm. Very good conditions. The artwork represe...

Keith Haring Safe Sex poster 1987: A fun, witty, classic Haring illustration created by the artist in conjunction with his many Aids Awar...

Saint Clair Cemin, Brazilian (1951 - ) - Within You II, Year: 1978, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 11/30, Image Size: 5.75 x ...

Signed, titled and Artist Proof by the artist from an edition of 100. Male nude etching by Trevor Southey. Trevor Southey was born in Rhodesia, Africa (now Zimbabwe) in 1940. His A...

Very rare edition of only 25 prints on vélin fort, numbered and signed by the artist. Redness on left side of the sheet, otherwise excellent conditions and in full margins. Dry stamp...

Knave of Sticks is an etching realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s. The state of preservation of the artwork is good. Hand-signed. Numbered, edit...

Clare Grossman ‘The Shape of Her’, homage to Henry Moore’ Limited edition of 45 Solar plate etching on Somerset 300gsm paper. Actual plate/image size ...

Woman from Shoulders is an etching on paper, realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Porzano (1925-2006). Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered edition, 2/20. In good condition ...

Serena is an original woodcut realized by Arturo Martini. Title and signature printed on the lower margin. The State of preservation is good. The artwork is representing a woman beside a vase of flowers in a frame through intense bla...

Salvador Dali - Six Eggs - Original Etching Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Edition: 390 1967 On Rives Vellum References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.

Lips in Perspective Roberto Carbone, Italian (1949) Date: 1979 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250 Size: 27 in. x 20 in. (68.58 cm x 50.8 cm)

Nude Woman is an original etching artwork on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century. Hand-signed on the lower right. With the stamp of "Galerie J. Frapier Paris" o...

Standing Nude is a original artwork realized in 1976 by the Spanish artist José A.Benasalvas. Original Woodcut on rigid paper. Edition of 25 prints. Hand-signed by the artist on t...

Tomi Ungerer Nude Gun: a selection from Underground Sketchbook: First printing, 1965. Medium: Vintage poster. Dimensions: 23 in. x 29 in. (58.42 cm x 73.66 cm). Very good overall vi...

Andre Masson, French (1896 - 1987) - L'Espagne assassinee from Solidarite, Year: 1938, Medium: Etching on wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 1/15, Image Size: 9.25 ...

Pablo PICASSO Métarmorphoses d'Ovide, The Girls of Minyas, 1936 Original etching (Atelier Lacourière, Paris) Unsigned On BFK Rives vellum 32.5 x 25 cm (12.7 x 9.8 in) REFERENCES : ...

This artwork titled "La Negra (The Black Woman)" from the suite "The Mujeres File" 1969 is an original colors lithograph on B.F.K. Rives paper by renown Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and numbered 150/150 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26.85 x 21.25 inches, sheet size is 29.5 x 22.15 inches, framed size is 42 x 35 inches. Published by Touchtone Publisher, New York, printed by Ateliers Desjobert, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Pereda, plate #109 page 107. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with silver spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: A native of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, Rufino Tamayo's father was a shoemaker, and his mother a seamstress. Some accounts state that he was descended from Zapotec Indians, but he was actually 'mestizo' - of mixed indigenous/European ancestry. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). He began painting at age 11. Orphaned at the age of 12, Tamayo moved to Mexico City, where he was raised by his maternal aunt who owned a wholesale fruit business. In 1917, he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, but left soon after to pursue independent study. Four years later, Tamayo was appointed the head designer of the department of ethnographic drawings at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. There he was surrounded by pre-Colombian objects, an aesthetic inspiration that would play a pivotal role in his life. In his own work, Tamayo integrated the forms and tones of pre-Columbian ceramics into his early still lives and portraits of Mexican men and women. In the early 1920s he also taught art classes in Mexico City's public schools. Despite his involvement in Mexican history, he did not subscribe to the idea of art as nationalistic propaganda. Modern Mexican art at that time was dominated by 'The Three Great Ones' : Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueros, but Tamayo began to be noted as someone 'new' and different' for his blending of the aesthetics of post Revolutionary Mexico with the vanguard artists of Europe and the United States. After the Mexican Revolution, he focused on creating his own identity in his work, expressing what he thought was the traditional Mexico, and refusing to follow the political trends of his contemporary artists. This caused some to see him as a 'traitor' to the political cause, and he felt it difficult to freely express himself in his art. As a result, he decided to leave Mexico in 1926 and move to New York, along with his friend, the composer Carlos Chavez. The first exhibition of Tamayo's work in the United States was held at the Weyhe Gallery, New York, in that same year. The show was successful, and Tamayo was praised for his 'authentic' status as a Mexican of 'indigenous heritage', and for his internationally appealing Modernist aesthetic. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). Throughout the late thirties and early forties New York's Valentine Gallery gave him shows. For nine years, beginning in 1938, he taught at the Dalton School in New York. In 1929, some health problems led him to return to Mexico for treatment. While there he took a series of teaching jobs. During this period he became romantically involved with the artist Maria Izquierdo...

Saint Clair Cemin, Brazilian (1951 - ) - Within You IV, Year: 1978, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 2/30, Image Size: 5.75 x ...

Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue references: Delteil 44 or Roger-Marx 19. Printed in Paris by Clot and published in 1919 by Ambroise Vollard for the rare "Douze Lithographies O...

After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...

Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This silkscreen is in perfect condition and from a ver...

Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Édit...

Willibrord Haas (*1936 Schramberg), Entangled, 2008. etching, 28 cm (height) x 17 cm (width). Signed “Willibrord Haas” in pencil by the artist, dated “2008”, titled “Verschränkt” and...

Keith Haring Into 84/Keith Haring Painted Man 1983: Announcement card for Keith Haring’s well-documented exhibition, 'Into 84' at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New Y...