Louise Bourgeois - Editions & Works on Paper New York Friday, July 24, 2020 | 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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2003/2008
Photogravure with Chine collé to wove paper, with full margins.
I. 7 1/2 x 10 in. (19.1 x 25.4 cm)
S. 15 1/4 x 16 3/8 in. (38.7 x 41.6 cm)

Signed, dated, annotated 'FH' (Felix Harlan) and numbered 29/65 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Harlan and Weaver, New York, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $7,500

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 23 - 24 July 2020