Louise Bourgeois - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Benefit Art Auction New York Thursday, May 15, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Courtesy of the artist and Cheim & Read, New York

  • Exhibited

     

  • Catalogue Essay

    Please note copyright is retained by the artist.

  • 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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The Birth

2007

Gouache on paper.

23 5/8 x 18 in. (60 x 45.7 cm).

Signed “Louise Bourgeois” lower right.

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $75,000

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Benefit Art Auction

15 May 2008, 6pm
New York