Artist Info: Hans Bellmer (Polish/French Surrealist, 1902-1975) is one of the most important French Surrealists and is well known for his engravings and paintings. He is also known for the life-sized female dolls that he produced in the mid-1930s and which he obsessively photographed over the next decade. His first doll, begun in 1933, was the image of an adolescent girl, made of papier-maché and plaster molded over an armature of wood and metal. The entire body could be assembled and reassembled like a machine. Bellmer's 1934 book Die Puppe (The Doll), produced and published privately in Germany, contains ten black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of tableaux vivants.