{"title":"Hans Bellmer","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks by Hans Bellmer available at The New Rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hans-bellmer-67-photographies-inedites-galerie-francois-petit-1983-84","title":"Hans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites — Galerie François Petit — 1983–84","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eApprox. 10.5 × 15 cm\u003cbr\u003eDouble-sided offset print on card\u003cbr\u003eFrench text\u003cbr\u003eGalerie François Petit, 196 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 20 December 1983 – 25 February 1984\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e very good. Clean, crisp surface with light age toning and minor handling consistent with period exhibition ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal invitation card for \u003cem\u003eHans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites\u003c\/em\u003e, issued by Galerie François Petit for the Paris exhibition of previously unpublished photographs. The recto carries a black-and-white photographic image: face, hand, obstruction, gaze. The verso reduces the exhibition to script, dates, address, and gallery placement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellmer’s work moved through Surrealism by way of the constructed body, the doll, the erotic fragment, and the image as psychological apparatus. By the early 1980s, his photographic practice was being re-entered into circulation through exhibitions, catalogues, and specialist gallery contexts in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLess commonly encountered than the related exhibition catalogue, the invitation survives as a lighter administrative fragment from the same exhibition structure. Produced for short-term circulation, examples appear infrequently on the secondary market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs object, this card sits between announcement and retained support. It was made to pass briefly through the gallery system and disappear. Its survival gives it a second condition: invitation, document, and secondary photographic object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Ships protected with tracked postage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53053706830162,"sku":"BELLMER-GAL3PLUS2-INV-1983","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bellmer_Hans._Show_invite_67_photographies_inedites_._1983.jpg?v=1779946086"},{"product_id":"a-francois-petit-paris-surrealist-group-exhibition-invitation-1965","title":"A. François Petit, Paris — Surrealist Group Exhibition Invitation, December 1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal printed invitation card for an exhibition of selected works at A. François Petit, 122 boulevard Haussmann, Paris 8e, December 1965. Printed in script on pale green card stock. 10 × 8 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card lists eleven artists: Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Pierre Roy, Alberto Savinio, Max Walter Svanberg, Yves Tanguy, and Toyen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small and unusually elegant piece of mid-1960s Paris gallery ephemera. No image, no reproduction — just names, and the names do the work. The card condenses an entire Surrealist afterlife into a discreet printed square: Bellmer, Dalí, Ernst, Lam, Magritte, Tanguy, Toyen. Seen now, it reads less as a simple invitation than as a compact index of market formation, taste, and historical positioning in postwar Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe address is worth noting. André-François Petit ran his gallery from 122 boulevard Haussmann and became known as a committed dealer in Surrealism, handling figures including Dalí, Bellmer, Ernst, Magritte, and others from the movement's wider orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA minimal object, but a dense one: a private invitation, a dealer's calling card, and a quiet administrative fragment from the secondary life of Surrealism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good; light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ships flat in a protective sleeve with backing board.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53157598691666,"sku":"EPH-1965-PETIT-001","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/A._Francois_Petit_Gallery_0001.jpg?v=1775688835"},{"product_id":"seul-et-le-corps-galerie-du-dragon-paris-1966","title":"Seul, et le corps… — Galerie du Dragon, Paris, 1966","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition catalogue for \u003cem\u003eSeul, et le corps…\u003c\/em\u003e, a group exhibition held at Galerie du Dragon, 19 rue du Dragon, Paris 6e, février–mars 1966. Participants: Balthus, Bellmer, César, Cremonini, Dalí, Giacometti, Hélion, Hiquily, Ipoustéguy, Magritte, Matta, Petlin, Rosofsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue is a compact square booklet, 19 × 20 cm, [38] pp., printed in black and white throughout. Matte printed wrappers. Accompanied by a separate glossy announcement sheet, which repeats the cover typography and adds the gallery address and exhibition dates — a second surface, same exhibition, different function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two objects are not identical. The matte booklet holds the image sequence: body as motif, fragment, fantasy, sculpture, reproduced figure. The glossy sheet restores the administrative fact of the exhibition — place, address, date — and returns it to circulation. One carries the work. The other places it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sequence moves across Surrealism, post-Surrealism, postwar figuration, and sculptural treatments of the body. The body here is not stable. It is staged, handled, distorted, cast, drawn, and filed. Reclining figures give way to dissected anatomy; Surrealist pressure meets sculptural mass. The range of participants — from Giacometti and Magritte to César and Ipoustéguy — is held together not by style but by the body as shared problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Paris document from 1966, retained in good vintage condition. General age toning, light handling wear, minor edge wear and softening to corners. Interior pages clean overall with expected paper toning. The glossy sheet shows surface and wear consistent with its different material and function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Exhibition catalogue with separate announcement sheet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 19 × 20 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e [38] pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Black-and-white throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\/Venue:\u003c\/strong\u003e Galerie du Dragon, Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337987940690,"sku":"TNR-MULTI-1966-SELC","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Seul_Et_Le_Corps..._1966_001.jpg?v=1777888302"},{"product_id":"hans-bellmer-dessins-oeuvre-gravee-galerie-3-plus-2-paris-1971-72","title":"Hans Bellmer — Dessins, œuvre gravée — Galerie 3+2, Paris, 1971–72","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal folded exhibition invitation \/ announcement folder\u003cbr\u003eOffset print in brown ink on graph-paper patterned stock\u003cbr\u003eApprox. dimensions: c. 21 × 10 cm folded (unfolds larger)\u003cbr\u003eGalerie 3+2, 5 rue Visconti, Paris 6e\u003cbr\u003eExhibition dates: 10 December 1971 – 10 January 1972\u003cbr\u003eCondition: very good; light age toning, minor handling wear and soft edge wear consistent with period paper ephemera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate-career exhibition material issued for Hans Bellmer at the Paris gallery Galerie 3+2. Printed on graph-paper stock, the object introduces a curious tension between measured structure and Bellmer's unstable anatomy. The cover uses restrained script typography while the interior unfolds into a characteristic line drawing: fragmented bodily forms drifting between figure, mechanism, and dream image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the early 1970s Bellmer had already established himself as one of Surrealism's more psychologically charged figures through his dolls, drawings, and engravings. His work repeatedly disrupted fixed ideas of the body through rearrangement, repetition, and distortion. Issued only a few years before his death in 1975, this invitation sits close to the final phase of that trajectory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA folded support for the circulation of an exhibition. Image to the interior, announcement to the exterior. The graph paper performs a secondary function: measurement applied to a body that continually resists measurement. Not simply a document of an exhibition but a small printed threshold object — retained paper moving from gallery function toward object status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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Surface rubbing and scuffing to image side, light creasing, softened corners, age toning, postal handling marks, and handwritten inscription. The wear records circulation, storage, and retention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued by Éditions Georges Visat \/ Galerie Suzanne Visat, this card reproduces Bellmer’s 1971 bronze \u003cem\u003eLes mains immobiles\u003c\/em\u003e, a late work that translates his fragmented Surrealist body-language into polished, cast sculptural form. Bellmer, best known for his disturbing doll constructions and erotic anatomical distortions, remained closely tied to Surrealist publishing networks in Paris; Visat was one of the important print and edition figures around that milieu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis copy is stronger than a clean unused card. It has passed through the postal system, been addressed, written on, stamped, and retained. The gallery announcement becomes a social document; the reproduction becomes an object of transfer. Image, greeting, address, date, and postal mark hold the work in circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item. 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No image, no explanation. Just Bellmer placed into circulation by the French contemporary art system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellmer’s work had moved from Surrealist disturbance into institutional history by this point. His dolls, drawings, photographs and erotic anatomical distortions were no longer only scandalous private images; they were being absorbed into museum and archive structures. This card records that transfer. It is not the catalogue, not the exhibition, not the artwork — but the paper threshold through which the exhibition entered public time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs object: a minor printed support, scarce in survival, holding the movement from announcement to retained document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping included in the listed price. Ships protected with tracked postage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53588208484690,"sku":"BELLMER-CNAC-INV-1971","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Bellmer_Hans._Show_invite_le_centre_d_art_contemporain._1972.jpg?v=1779947562"},{"product_id":"hans-bellmer-svensk-franska-konstgalleriet-stockholm-1968","title":"Hans Bellmer — Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, 1968","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal folded exhibition catalogue \/ gallery pamphlet\u003cbr\u003eKatalog nr 345\u003cbr\u003ePrinted by Ikatryck, Stockholm, 1968\u003cbr\u003e14.8 × 21 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on cream paper stock\u003cbr\u003eText in Swedish; list of drawings and graphic works, 1942–1966\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good vintage condition; age toning, handling marks, light creasing, softened edges and small surface marks throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period exhibition pamphlet for Hans Bellmer at Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, January–February 1968. The cover reproduces Bellmer’s linear, bound figure, placing the body between drawing, erotic mechanism, and psychological diagram. Inside, a short Swedish biographical text situates Bellmer through Surrealism, La Poupée, and later recognition in Paris, Germany, and Stockholm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBellmer’s work had already moved from Surrealist provocation into a postwar language of the fragmented body. By 1968, his drawings and graphics circulated through galleries as both image and disturbance: anatomies folded into paper, desire, violence, and line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA folded administrative support carrying Bellmer into Stockholm. Not simply a catalogue, but a retained exhibition document. The image announces; the list records; the fold preserves the transaction between gallery, artist, and viewer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping included in the listed price. 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