The Doll (Maquette for The Doll's Games) 1938

Hans Bellmer’s “The Doll (Maquette for The Doll’s Games)” (1938) is a surrealistic sculpture depicting a distorted female figure with exaggerated proportions. The doll-like figure, with its bulbous torso, stands against a wall in a suggestive pose, highlighting the artist’s fascination with the female form and his exploration of themes of sexuality and the grotesque. This sculpture, a maquette for a larger work, represents a central motif in Bellmer’s oeuvre, the "doll," which he used to explore the boundaries of human identity and the nature of beauty.