Louise Bourgeois - Evening & Day Editions New York Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Carey Ellis Company, Houston

  • Literature

    Deborah Wye 126-135

  • Artist Biography

    Louise Bourgeois

    French-American • 1911 - 2010

    Known for her idiosyncratic style, Louise Bourgeois was a pioneering and iconic figure of twentieth and early twenty-first century art. Untied to an art historical movement, Bourgeois was a singular voice, both commanding and quiet.

    Bourgeois was a prolific printmaker, draftsman, sculptor and painter. She employed diverse materials including metal, fabric, wood, plaster, paper and paint in a range of scale — both monumental and intimate. She used recurring themes and subjects (animals, insects, architecture, the figure, text and abstraction) as form and metaphor to explore the fragility of relationships and the human body. Her artworks are meditations of emotional states: loneliness, jealousy, pride, anger, fear, love and longing.

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Homely Girl, A Life, Volume I

1992
The complete set of 10 etchings with drypoint, on Somerset paper, with full margins,
all I. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in (18.4 x 13.3 cm)
all S. 20 1/2 x 15 in. (52.1 x 38.1 cm)

all signed with initials and numbered 31/44 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York, all framed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auctions 21 April 2015