Peg-Top - Hans Bellmer, c. 1937-52
From the Tate:
This image relates to a plan for a sculpture, which Bellmer never completed. The peg-top was intended to symbolise a woman turning the heads and hearts of men. Bellmer was interested in ideas of fetishism, drawing out sexual associations between inert objects and the body. His best-known works were a series of constructed dolls. Bellmer joined the French Surrealist group in 1938, having left his native Germany to escape the Nazi regime.
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