CURIOSA. Georges BATAILLE - Hans BELLMER.... - Lot 326 - Marie-Saint Germain

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CURIOSA. Georges BATAILLE - Hans BELLMER.... - Lot 326 - Marie-Saint Germain
CURIOSA. Georges BATAILLE - Hans BELLMER. Madame Edwarda. Paris, Georges Visat [1965]. In-folio, 38 x 24,5 cm, old pink calf, large erotic composition crossing the boards, representing a woman's buttocks and sex, in fawn and black calf and black reptile skin mosaic in relief, long mute spine, gilt head, untrimmed, pearl grey velvet lining and endpapers, cover and spine preserved, half pink calf striped folder with gilt title and slipcase, spine of folder faded (Honegger, 1986). First illustrated edition, with 12 copper engravings by Hans Bellmer, including the frontispiece and a vignette at the colophon, all signed in pencil by Bellmer. Limited edition of 167 copies. According to the editor of Éros invaincu: "Bellmer's remarkable images are drawn with the sharpness of a scalpel. They crystallize, exceed and breathe the text of Bataille, whose realism holds with its lyric brightness rather than with its precision of the details. It is this very difference in approach, this unique vision, that makes the artist the equal of the author, rather than a mere illustrator." Attached: a letter concerning the copy "Sender: Monique Nordmann, Route de Pressy 17 CH - 1253 Vandoeuvres - Geneva September 24, 2001. Addressee: Mr. Tobia Bezzola - Kunsthaus, Zurich ; Dear Sir, In addition to the documents sent by fax on October 21, I am sending you an excerpt concerning Madame Edwarda: Madame Edwarda, by Georges Bataille. This deluxe edition of one of Bataille's most beautiful texts is illustrated with twelve copperplates engraved with point and burin by Hans Bellmer, one of the greatest artists of our time. The copperplates engraved in 1955 are of a very high quality, the graphics are intense, deep, rigorous in the irrational, to the point of normalizing it. One of the most important illustrated." Undefeated Eros 102, Pia, 852. Provenance : Ex-libris Gérard Nordmann, n° 46, Christie's sale, April 27, 2006.
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