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Louise Bourgeois
Ode à ma mère (Ode to My Mother): three plates
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- $9,000 - 12,000
$12,500
Lot Details
Three drypoints, on Dieu Donné paper, with full margins.
1995
two I. 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (21.6 x 15.9 cm)
one I. 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
all S. 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (30.2 x 30.2 cm)
one I. 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
all S. 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (30.2 x 30.2 cm)
All signed with initials and numbered XVII/XXXV in pencil (an hors commerce, the edition was 45, there was also an illustrated book version), published by Les Éditions du Solstice, Paris, all framed.
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Louise Bourgeois
French-American | B. 1911 D. 2010Known 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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