Louise Bourgeois - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 28, 2014 | Phillips

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  • 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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Tree with Shoes, plate 4 from Topiary, The Art of Improving Nature

1998
Etching, on wove paper, with full margins,
I. 29 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (75.6 x 55.2 cm)
S. 38 7/8 x 27 7/8 in. (98.7 x 70.8 cm)

signed, dated `98' and annotated 'Hors Commerce' in pencil (aside from the edition 28 and 10 artist's proofs), published by Julie Sylvester Cabot and the Whitney Museum of American Art Editions, New York, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $4,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 28 April 11am & 6pm