The Doll

Title: The Doll
Type: Photograph
Medium: gelatin silver prints
Description: Bellmer's obsession with dolls-his endless fabrication, reconstitution, and photographic presentation of them-was an effort to construct objects that would articulate his tortured desires in material form. The bizarre, robotic temptress in this negative print has an eerie electric aura. To love her, one would have to have, as the Surrealist poet Pierre Reverdy wrote, a "short circuit in the heart-system."
has technique: negative prints
has dimension: 29.5 x 19.4 cm (11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Creator: Bellmer, Hans
Date: 1934–35
Coverage: Surrealist
Subject: dolls (figurines)
Provenance: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Rights: © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
References: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265188

Surrealist Photography