Louise Bourgeois - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, November 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Cheim & Read, New York
    Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington DC
    Robert Miller Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    New York, Swiss Institute, Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Ilse Weber: Drawings and Works on Paper, May 28 - July 3, 1999
    Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, Present Tense, May 27 - August 30, 1998

  • 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 (Double Sided)

1995
ink and pencil on paper
9 x 11 3/4 in. (22.9 x 29.8 cm)
Initialed "LB" lower right and upper left.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $27,500

Contemporary Art Day Sale

16 November 2012
New York