Louise Bourgeois - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 15, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Cheim & Read, 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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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

Ο◆153

Untitled

1998
ink, pencil on paper
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Initialed "LB" lower right.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $32,500

Contact Specialist
Kate Bryan
Head of Day Sale
New York
+ 1 212 940 1267

Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Day Sale 15 May 2015 11am