Hans BELLMER. Lot n° 21

17 original drawings, 5 of which are signed. 1943-1947. Format in-16 and in-4 on different papers. Nice set of 17 original drawings from the 1940's, five of them signed. They were executed on various papers - the back of a telegram, pieces of paper tablecloth, a sheet of school notebook, etc. - and were signed. Six are small. On three sheets Bellmer used a candle that left traces of soot: on one of them he executed a beautiful pencil drawing of abstract shapes. On another, signed and dated Revel on October 19, 1944, a coloured pencil frame was made by a child ("Colours of JP" he noted); in this frame, Bellmer drew with a point in the soot. Five drawings, two of them signed and dated March 1949, were executed on pieces of paper tablecloth: face in pencil, abstract form, cow, eye in a frame and, on the fifth, a naked woman for whom Bellmer used the liquid stains staining the tablecloth. A beautiful pencil portrait on tracing paper showing a seated little girl is signed and captioned on the back: "Bellmer 15.10.44 Revel [...] M.S. Bourgoubis [?] during a pose." An emaciated, almost mortuary female face, which appears to be that of Nora Mitrani, is shown on a fragment of tablecloth or wrapping paper. Finally, a remarkable tangle of female bodies in pencil is signed and dated 1943, with sketches on the back. Other small-format drawings include a woman and a child looking at a cloud, a sketch of a flower, another of what appears to be an insect, etc. The other drawings, which are small in size, include a woman and a child looking at a cloud, a sketch of a flower, another of what appears to be an insect, etc.