
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled
Hans Bellmer · March 18, 1951
Provenance
Ownership history
- Given by Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, "The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism," 1958, n.p. (ill.).
- Santa Barbara, CA., University of California, Art Gallery, "Surrealism: A State of Mind, 1924–1965," 1966, cat. 33 (ill.).
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Fantastic Drawings," 1967–1968, no cat.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Hans Bellmer: Drawings and Sculpture," 1975, n.p., as "Hands."
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," 1984–1985, p. 118, as Untitled (Hands).
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), p. 161, fig. 12.
- Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 10–11, cat. 5 (color ill.).
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