• Original 1983 Hans Bellmer exhibition invitation, Galerie François Petit, Paris — recto reproducing a black-and-white photograph of a doll's face partially obscured by a large hand pressing across the eyes and forehead, a cross-shaped object visible at left margin; from the series of doll photographs for which Bellmer is known.
  • Reverse of 1983 Hans Bellmer 67 photographies inédites exhibition invitation, Galerie François Petit, Paris — verso printed in elegant cursive script typography with artist name Hans Bellmer, exhibition title 67 photographies inédites, dates 20 décembre 1983 au 25 février 1984, gallery name Galerie François Petit, address 196 boulevard Saint-Germain 75007 Paris, telephone 544.64.83.
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Hans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites — Galerie François Petit — 1983–84

Hans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites — Galerie François Petit — 1983–84

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Exhibition invitation card
Approx. 10.5 × 15 cm
Double-sided offset print on card
French text
Galerie François Petit, 196 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris
Exhibition dates: 20 December 1983 – 25 February 1984

Condition: very good. Clean, crisp surface with light age toning and minor handling consistent with period exhibition ephemera.

Original invitation card for Hans Bellmer — 67 photographies inédites, issued by Galerie François Petit for the Paris exhibition of previously unpublished photographs.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.

Bellmer’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.

Less 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.

As 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.

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