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Louise Bourgeois
Mother and Child
- Estimate
- $80,000 - 120,000
Lot Details
Screenprint in red, on linen,
2007
S. 76 x 44 in (193 x 111.8 cm)
embroidered with initials, and signed and numbered 1/7 in ink on the reverse (there were also 3 artist's proofs), published by Carolina Nitsch, New York, and Lison Editions (the artist's own imprint, referring back to a childhood nickname, other nicknames included Lise, Lisette, Louison, and Louisette), in very good condition, framed.
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Catalogue Essay
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
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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