Bellmer contributed to a number of Surrealist exhibitions and publications such as Cahiers d'Art, and Minotaure. Bellmer created his first disjointed and curvaceous wooden doll (la Poupée) in 1933. Four years later, he made a second version, represented in this lot with more malleable and interchangeable limbs. Bellmer could manipulate the doll into a series of fetishistic and erotic positions which he then captured on film, often hand-coloring the resulting prints. In this image, Poupée, with her curvaceous belly, assumes the pose of a woman about to give birth. Her lifeless and child-like facial features are concealed, although the floral wallpaper in the background and bow in her hair suggest something grotesquely girlish. As ever, the image is unnerving-we become part of Bellmer's highly-charged and obsessional fantasy world.