Louise Bourgeois - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 16, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Kukje Gallery, Seoul
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in July 2007

  • Exhibited

    Halmstad, Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstadgruppen, Fernand Léger, May 29 - August 28, 2005 (another example exhibited)
    San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim, Louise Bourgeois: Prints and Drawings, September 1 - October 8, 2005 (another example exhibited)
    Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Le Surréalisme, c'est moi! Hommage to Salvador Dalí: Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Brown, Markus Schinwald, Francesco Vezzoli, June 22 - October 23, 2011, p. 84 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

  • Literature

    Brigitte Conrad, "La Rivière Gentille / The Sweet River", Les Films du Siamois/Centre Pompidou with Harvestworks and Easton Foundation, 2007, 1:15:53, video (another example illustrated)

  • 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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Untitled

(i) stamped with the artist's initials, inscription, number, date and Modern Art Foundry mark "LB 1/8 MAF 01 ELEMENT 1 OF 3" on the underside
(ii) stamped with the inscription, date and Modern Art Foundry mark "ELEMENT 2 OF 3 MAF 01" on the underside
(iii) stamped with the inscription, date and Modern Art Foundry mark "ELEMENT 3 OF 3 MAF 01" on the underside

bronze with silver nitrate patina, in 3 parts
(i) 12 1/4 x 8 x 6 in. (31.1 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm.)
(ii) 10 1/2 x 8 x 6 7/8 in. (26.7 x 20.3 x 17.5 cm.)
(iii) 6 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. (17.5 x 14.9 x 13 cm.)

Executed in 2001, this work is number 1 from an edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Estimate
$70,000 - 100,000 

Sold for $156,250

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 16 May 2018