Louise Bourgeois - Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection New York Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | Phillips

Editions and Works on Paper Including Works...

New York Auction 18 April 2017

  • Literature

    The Museum of Modern Art Cat. No. 1041-1052

  • 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 an Important New York Collection

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Louise Bourgeois

Anatomy

1990
The complete set of 12 prints, including 11 etchings and one multiple, on Somerset and blue wove paper, with full margins, all contained in the original mauve cloth-covered portfolio.
Portfolio 26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm)
All signed with initials and numbered 37/44 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $31,250

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

New York Auction 18 April 2017