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

"The Doll (Maquette for The Doll's Games)" is a 1938 photograph by German Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer. The image depicts a life-size female doll, its body fragmented and contorted, standing against a rough stone wall. Bellmer's work explored themes of sexuality, the body, and the grotesque, challenging conventional beauty standards. The doll's exaggerated features and disjointed limbs create a unsettling and disturbing effect, highlighting the artist's fascination with the uncanny. "The Doll" is a maquette, a small-scale model, for Bellmer's larger work "The Doll's Games", which explored the darker aspects of the human condition.