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Louise Bourgeois
Homely Girl, A Life (MoMA 926-935)
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- $15,000 - 20,000
$25,400
Lot Details
The complete set of 10 drypoints, on Somerset paper, with full margins, with title page, colophon and epigraph, all loose (as issued), all contained in the original grey linen portfolio.
1992
I. 7 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (18.4 x 13.7 cm)
S. 20 1/2 x 15 in. (52.1 x 38.1 cm)
portfolio 21 1/8 x 15 1/2 x 3/4 in. (53.7 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm)
S. 20 1/2 x 15 in. (52.1 x 38.1 cm)
portfolio 21 1/8 x 15 1/2 x 3/4 in. (53.7 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm)
All signed with initials and numbered 15/44 in pencil (there were also 10 in Roman numerals), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York.
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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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