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Louise Bourgeois
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- Estimate
- $50,000 - 70,000
$87,500
Lot Details
Soft-ground etching with extensive hand-coloring in watercolor, gouache and colored pencil, with additions in graphite, on handmade paper, the full sheet flush-mounted to heavy buff card (as issued).
2004
S. 27 3/4 x 19 7/8 in. (70.5 x 50.6 cm)
overall 39 3/4 x 29 1/4 in. (101 x 74.3 cm)
overall 39 3/4 x 29 1/4 in. (101 x 74.3 cm)
Signed and titled in pencil on the heavy buff card support, annotated 'Study 11/12' and 'BOUR - 8168' in pencil on the reverse (there were 12 unique variants and the edition of 9 for plate 10 in the illustrated book Hang On !!), published by Osiris, New York, framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
I want them to like
me and tell me
that I am ok
I want to be noticed
I want to be given
I want to be loved
Hang On!! #10
Contemplate a finished and concentric
world like a rose
Hang On!! #17
me and tell me
that I am ok
I want to be noticed
I want to be given
I want to be loved
Hang On!! #10
Contemplate a finished and concentric
world like a rose
Hang On!! #17
Provenance
Literature
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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