Hans Bellmer — Dessins, œuvre gravée — Galerie 3+2, Paris, 1971–72

Original folded exhibition invitation / announcement folder
Offset print in brown ink on graph-paper patterned stock
Approx. dimensions: c. 21 × 10 cm folded (unfolds larger)
Galerie 3+2, 5 rue Visconti, Paris 6e
Exhibition dates: 10 December 1971 – 10 January 1972
Condition: very good; light age toning, minor handling wear and soft edge wear consistent with period paper ephemera

Late-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.

By 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.

A 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.

Original period item. Shipping and handling included in listed price.