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Louise Bourgeois
Untitled (Ex-Libris), bookplate from Recueil des Secrets de Louyse Bourgeois (Collection of Secrets of Louyse Bourgeois) (see MoMA 612)
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- £800 - 1,200♠
£1,143
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Offset lithograph in colours with embossing, on wove paper, with full margins, with the accompanying illustrated book Recueil des Secrets de Louyse Bourgeois.
2005
I. 9 x 6.9 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
S. 11.7 x 8.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
book 15.1 x 9.7 x 1.7 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
S. 11.7 x 8.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
book 15.1 x 9.7 x 1.7 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
Signed with initials and numbered 92/300 in pencil (there was also a deluxe edition of 40 and 15 artist's proofs), published by Salon Verlag, Cologne, unframed.
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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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