Louise Bourgeois - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 29, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York 29 April 2013 10am & 6pm

  • 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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Louise Bourgeois

Homely Girl, A life suite

1992
The complete set of 10 etchings with drypoint, on Somerset paper, with full margins,
all I. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in (18.4 x 13.3 cm);
all S. 20 1/4 x 15 in (51.4 x 38.1 cm)
all signed with initials and numbered 39/44 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York, all in very good condition, all framed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $43,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 29 April 2013 10am & 6pm