
Femme debout
A pencil drawing by Hans Bellmer depicting a standing female figure. The work demonstrates Bellmer's characteristic style of rendering the human form with expressive line work.
- Medium
- pencil on paper
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Purism and Beyond: A Modern Collection
March 19, 2021
Estimate: $2,000 to $3,000
Lot 344
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Artists in conversation

Egon Schiele
Austrian · b. 1890

Schiele's figurative pencil drawings share Bellmer's intensely expressive and raw line work when depicting the standing female form, conveying psychological tension and vulnerability through distorted yet precise draftsmanship.

Gustav Klimt
Austrian · b. 1862

Klimt produced hundreds of intimate pencil figure studies of standing and reclining women with a similarly sensual and direct observational approach, demonstrating masterful expressive line work focused on the female body.

Balthus
French · b. 1908

Balthus created highly refined figurative pencil drawings of the female form with a similarly contemplative and psychologically charged atmosphere, sharing Bellmer's interest in rendering the body with precise yet unsettling expressive clarity.
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