Artworks · Hans Bellmer

Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)

1973 · Etching from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts

plate: 12 1/2 x 9 7/16" (31.8 x 23.9cm); sheet: 26 x 19 3/4" (66 x 50.2cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1969 · Etching, with applied green paint, on brown mulberry paper

Plate: 29.1 × 27.9 cm (11 1/2 × 11 in.); Sheet: 39.9 × 33 cm (15 3/4 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate Eight, from Petit Traite de Morale

1968 · Etching on white Japanese paper

Plate: 27.7 × 21.3 cm (10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 38 × 28.1 cm (15 × 11 1/8 in.)

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Plate Ten, from Petit Traite de Morale

1968 · Etching on white Japanese paper

Image: 25.7 × 21.4 cm (10 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 38 × 28.3 cm (15 × 11 3/16 in.)

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Notes for New Justine, from Petit Traite de Morale

1968 · Etching on white Japanese paper

Plate: 27.7 × 21.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 37.5 × 28 cm (14 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.)

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The Bat

1968 · Etching in black and white on brown laid paper

Plate: 29.5 × 38.1 cm (11 5/8 × 15 in.); Sheet: 48.4 × 66.8 cm (19 1/16 × 26 5/16 in.)

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Octopus, from Mode d'Emploi

1967 · Engraving on white Japanese paper

Plate: 14.9 × 8.6 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/16 in.); Sheet: 22.7 × 16 cm (8 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

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Negresse, from Mode d'Emploi

1967 · Engraving on white Japanese paper

Plate: 14.6 × 8.4 cm (5 3/4 × 3 5/16 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 15.9 cm (8 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seeking Fingers, from Mode d'Emploi

1967 · Engraving on white Japanese paper

Plate: 14.9 × 8.6 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/16 in.); Sheet: 22.4 × 16 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

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The Web, from Mode d'Emploi

1967 · Engraving on white Japanese paper

Plate: 15 × 8.5 cm (5 15/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 15.9 cm (8 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

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Ways of Daring, from Mode d'Emploi

1967 · Engraving on white Japanese paper

Plate: 14.8 × 8.6 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/16 in.); Sheet: 22.7 × 22.9 cm (8 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontpiece of catalogue Kestner-Gesellschaft (Hanover)

1967 · Etching on paper

Plate: 15.5 × 14.6 cm (6 1/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 32.5 cm (8 3/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Pink or Green at Night

1966 · Etching on white wove paper

Plate: 29.8 × 20 cm (11 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 56 × 37.8 cm (22 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

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Sur Canape

1966 · Etching on off-white wove paper

26.4 × 40 cm (10 7/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

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Sur le Canapé

1966 · Etching on paper (unique trial proof in color)

Plate: 26.5 × 39.8 cm (10 7/16 × 15 11/16 in.); Sheet: 49.6 × 64.3 cm (19 9/16 × 25 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rose ou Vert la nuit

1966 · Etching

plate: 11 3/4 x 7 7/8" (29.8 x 20 cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 14 7/8" (54.9 x 37.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate Three, from Madame Edwarda

1965 · Etching on white wove paper

Plate: 18.5 × 8.2 cm (7 5/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Sheet: 37.6 × 24 cm (14 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

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Plate Four, from Madame Edwarda

1965 · Etching on white wove paper

Plate: 18.3 × 8.2 cm (7 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 12.2 cm (9 15/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

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Plate I from Madame Edwarda

1965 · Etching on white wove paper

Plate: 18.4 × 8.1 cm (7 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.); Sheet: 37.6 × 24.7 cm (14 13/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Reptile Drawing (Épure reptiligne) (plate, page 31) from Feuilles éparses

1965 · Engraving from an illustrated book with nine etchings (two with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint), two engravings, one aquatint, one drypoint, and one woodcut

plate: 8 1/4 × 6 7/8" (20.9 × 17.4 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 7 7/8" (24 × 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Little Girl with a Top (Petite fille à la toupie) (plate, page 103) from Feuilles éparses

1965 · Engraving from an illustrated book with nine etchings (two with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint), two engravings, one aquatint, one drypoint, and one woodcut

plate: 6 15/16 x 5 7/8" (17.6 x 15 cm); sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 7/8" (24.1 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of Wifredo Lam

1964 · Pen and black ink, over graphite, on masonite panel prepared with an ivory ground

71.5 × 66.1 cm (28 3/16 × 26 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Jean Arp

1957 · Graphite on paper

support: 482 x 320 mm frame: 650 x 470 x 20 mm

Tate

Untitled

1955 · Lithograph in black and white ink printed on gray ink, on cream wove paper

Image: 57.6 × 28.7 cm (22 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 73.8 × 47 cm (29 1/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

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Untitled plate for Madame Edwarda by Pierre Angelique

1955 · Engraving

plate: 7 1/4 × 3 3/16" (18.4 × 8.1 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 × 9 5/8" (37 × 24.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Unica Zurn with Cats Eye Marble (recto); Double Portrait of Unica Zurn (verso)

1954 · Pen and white ink on black paper

50 × 70 cm (19 11/16 × 27 9/16 in.)

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Articulated Hands

1954 · Tint lithograph on paper, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 27.7 × 37.1 cm (10 15/16 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 42 × 55.6 cm (16 9/16 × 21 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Machine-Gunner in a State of Grace (Mitrailleuse en état de grâce)

1954 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 6 1/2 x 5 13/16" (16.5 x 14.7 cm); sheet: 22 1/8 x 14 15/16" (56.2 x 38 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1951 · Graphite with smudging on cream wove paper

38.1 × 28.1 cm (15 × 11 1/8 in.)

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Child and Seeing Hands

1950 · Pen and brown ink with gouache and watercolor on paper

23.8 × 28.5 cm (9 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Variations on a Doll's Game

1950 · Lithograph

composition: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4" (35 x 27.3 cm); sheet: 22 5/16 x 15 1/16" (56.7 x 38.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Les jeux de la poupée (Games of the Doll)

1949 · Fifteen gelatin silver prints with hand-applied watercolor, mounted on cardstock and bound; two cut-out photocollages, one with added color, on the cover and title page

25 × 20 × 3 cm (9 7/8 × 7 7/8 × 1 3/16 in.)

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Title page from Games of the Doll

1949

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Games of the Doll

1949 · Book containing gelatin silver prints with applied color

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The Woman at the Cathedral

1948 · Etching

plate: 7 1/8 x 9 1/16" (18.1 x 23 cm); sheet: 11 3/16 x 15" (28.4 x 38.1 cm)

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The Hand Hat (Le Chapeau-main) (plate) from Le Surréalisme en 1947

1947 · Photogravure from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object

composition (irreg.): 8 9/16 × 5 1/4" (21.8 × 13.3 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

La Maison

1942 · Graphite, on ivory wove paper

21.2 × 13.5 cm (8 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of Max Ernst, Inferno

1940 · Graphite, heightened with white gouache, on tan wove paper

23 × 19 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

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The Doll

1937 · Photographs, black and white, and ink on paper

support: 185 x 752 mm frame: 211 x 781 x 18 mm

Tate

Peg-Top

1937 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 648 x 648 mm frame: 840 x 840 x 93 mm

Tate

The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace

1937 · Construction of wood and metal

30 7/8 x 29 3/4 x 13 5/8" (78.5 x 75.5 x 34.5 cm), on wood base 4 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 11 7/8" (12 x 40 x 29.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Palace of King Ubu

1937 · White ink on black paper

11 7/8 x 9" (30 x 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Doll

1936 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper

image: 238 x 240 mm

Tate

The Doll

1936 · Painted aluminium on brass base

object: 635 x 307 x 305 mm

Tate

Untitled

1936 · Brush and white gouache on black wove paper, tipped on pink wove paper (faded to salmon)

251 × 160 mm (work); 425 × 299 mm (2nd support)

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La poupée (The Doll)

1936 · Ten gelatin silver prints mounted on cardstock and bound

16.7 × 12.8 × 0.5 cm (6 5/8 × 5 1/16 × 1/4 in.)

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Plate from La Poupée

1936 · Gelatin silver print

4 5/8 × 3" (11.7 × 7.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate from La Poupée

1936 · Gelatin silver print

4 5/8 × 3" (11.7 × 7.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art