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Louise Bourgeois
Ode à la Bièvre (Ode to the Bièvre) (MoMA 380b-403b)
- Estimate
- $5,000 - 7,000
$5,040
Lot Details
The complete set of two digital prints, on Verona paper, with accompanying to scale reproduction of the fabric book of the same title made in 2002 (bound as issued), all contained in the original brown paper-covered slipcase, also with an unbound set of the reproductions.
2007
Slipcase 12 1/8 x 16 2/8 x 1 in. (30.8 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm)
Signed with initials and numbered 42/95 in pencil on the two prints, additionally signed in black ink and numbered in pencil on the justification page (from the Special Edition of 95 and 25 artist's proofs in Roman numerals, part of the trade edition of 1,800), published by Zucker Art Books, New York.
Specialist
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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