id: 165419 accession number: 2007.27 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.27 updated: 2019-11-18 12:23:21.468000 The Doll, 1934. Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975). Gelatin silver print; image: 7.8 x 11.8 cm (3 1/16 x 4 5/8 in.); mounted: 12 x 16 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.27 © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris title: The Doll title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1934 creation date earliest: 1934 creation date latest: 1934 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - German 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) - artist --- measurements: Image: 7.8 x 11.8 cm (3 1/16 x 4 5/8 in.); Mounted: 12 x 16 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy opening date: 2004-09-14T04:00:00 Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006). title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00 Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Meeting a beautiful teenage cousin, seeing an opera where the hero falls in love with a female mechanical doll, and receiving a box of his childhood toys that included broken doll parts were among the influences that led Hans Bellmer to manufacture an "artificial girl." He photographed this unrealistic yet uncannily human, life-sized mannequin in poses varying from mundane, flirtatious, vulnerable, romantic, and erotic to radical re- and deconstructions of the human body. Working in Berlin as the Nazis rose to power, Bellmer created a vehicle for the erotic imagination that rekindled memories of childhood passions while prophesying some of the horrors to come. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. page number: p. 75 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. page number: cat. no.1, p. 3 & 90 url: --- IMAGES