PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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Louise Bourgeois
Yes
- Estimate
- £10,000 - 15,000♠
£77,500
Lot Details
Soft-ground etching with unique hand-colouring in watercolour, gouache and ink, with additions in graphite and coloured pencils, on Somerset paper, the full sheet flush-mounted to heavy Twinrocker paper (as issued).
2004
S. 60.5 x 70 cm (23 7/8 x 27 1/2 in.)
overall 69.5 x 77.5 cm (27 3/8 x 30 1/2 in.)
overall 69.5 x 77.5 cm (27 3/8 x 30 1/2 in.)
Signed in pencil on the Twinrocker support and numbered 'Study 10/15' in pencil on the reverse (there were 15 unique variants), published by Osiris, New York, 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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