Louise Bourgeois - Under the Influence New York Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

  • Artist Biography

    Louise Bourgeois

    French-American • 1911 - 2010

    Known 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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Give or Take III (How do you feel this morning?)

1990
brown and gold patinated bronze
4 5/8 x 9 1/8 x 6 in. (11.7 x 23.2 x 15.2 cm)
Incised with initials and dated "LB 90" on the underside; further incised "5/40" on the side. This work is number 5 from an edition of 40 plus 9 artist's proofs.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $32,500

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Under the Influence

New York Auction 4 March 2015 11am