BELLMER (Hans).

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BELLMER (Hans).
Set of L.A.S. and manuscripts sent to René Renne. - An AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT : Autobiographical notes, signed and dated January 1946, 7 p. (21 x 27 cm), in blue ink on pink linen paper, one of them on a fragment of envelope (ca. 9 x 8,5 cm). - One sheet, titled Notes pour la Chronique des " Cahiers du Sud ", is accompanied by a second sheet on the same subject signed Bellmer and dated January 5, 1946, in Castres. - 13 L.A.S. to René Renne. 17 p. mostly in-4 on pink paper, Castres, Revel, Carcassonne and Paris, August 7, 1945-May 15, 1952. That is to say with the notes a set of 20 pages. From 1946, René Renne and Claude Serbanne began a series of articles for the Cahiers du Sud on the principal representatives of modern art, mainly surrealists. Bellmer sent "Autobiographical Notes" to René Renne, in which he outlined his intellectual formation, in particular his pictorial shocks when he discovered the "scandalous" TOULOUSE-LAUTREC and AUBREY BEARDSLEY. He then became interested in Dada and the Germans Grosz - whom he joined in Berlin -, Heartfield, Dix and Schwitters. He spent a few months in Paris in 1924-1925, then returned to Berlin, where he said he lived in terror. Memories of his childhood and of a little girl gave him the idea and the mad enthusiasm to want to make an artificial girl (1934); the idea was to build a panorama in six sections in his torso, electrically illuminated in all colors and visible through his navel. Then the desire to make another one was born. Bellmer details the construction of the first Poupée, evokes the "belly ball" of the second and the colored photographs to be published under the title "Jeux de la Poupée" illustrated with texts by Paul Éluard. Bellmer contacts Breton and Éluard. His installation in Paris in early 1938, the publication in 1939 of a small book rather "sweet" with Georges Hugnet [Oeillades ciselées en branche], his solitude in Castres, a reprint of the "Philosophy in the Boudoir" of Sade (with a very important number of drawings and or engravings). In the seventh sheet, added, he evokes the preface for the "Jeux de la Poupée" and its volume II, "Petite Anatomie de l'inconscient physique ou l'Anatomie de l'image", as well as a project in collaboration with Joë Bousquet based on a fact of introceptive hallucination ("Justification de la Sodomie"). The ongoing correspondence reports on work and publishing projects (Sade's 120 Days of Sodom, learning engraving for Bataille's Histoire de l'Oeil) and the artist's family and material difficulties. This unpublished autobiographical and documentary ensemble from Bellmer's hand is exceptional, given that "the testimonies relating to this period of his life do not converge and are rarely reliable. (Pierre Dourthe, Bellmer, the principle of perversion, Paris, Jean-Pierre Faur, 1999). - 6 photographs are attached, various sizes, reproducing drawings or Works of Bellmer, as well as 2 invitations cards (Galerie du Luxembourg, March-April 1947 and Librairie Paul Morihien, May 1952). Lack of paper on one letter. Traces of water on another, without affecting the text.
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