Untitled by Hans Bellmer
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Hans Bellmer · 1936

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, by December 1969 [Chicago 1969]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Selections from the Joseph R. Shapiro Collection,” 20 December 1969-1 February 1970, cat. 70.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Hans Bellmer,” 3 May-22 June 1975.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1 December 1984-27 January 1975.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro Collection,” 23 February-14 April 1985, cat. 14.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro," December 15, 1992-April 18, 1993, p. 16, fig. 24.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Sue Taylor, “Hans Bellmer in The Art Institute of Chicago: The Wandering Libido and the Hysterical Body,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 22, 2 (1996), pp. 150-165, fig. 3.

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