
La Poupée
- Publisher
- GLM
- Year
- 1936
- Specifications
- Pink wrappers with peach printed folding cover
16.5 x 12.3 cm
Ten gelatin silver prints mounted
French
Introduction by Hans Bellmer, translated by Robert Valençay
Edition of 100 copies plus 5 hors commerce
Published by Guy Lévis Mano (GLM), Paris
The French edition of Die Puppe, published in Paris two years after the German original by the poet-printer Guy Lévis Mano, with Bellmer's introduction translated by Robert Valençay. It presents ten photographs of the artificial girl with multiple anatomical possibilities that Bellmer had constructed in Berlin in 1933, a doll assembled and photographed in stages, and it carried the work to the Parisian Surrealists, who had already seen it in the pages of Minotaure. The book is a small, fragile object printed in a limited edition, one of the founding documents of Surrealist photography and of the doll theme in Bellmer's work.