Louise Bourgeois - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

  • Literature

    Museum of Modern Art Cat. No. 518.2

  • 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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Le Père et les 3 Fils (MoMA 518.2)

1999
Lithograph and embossing with hand-coloring, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 18 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (47.6 x 23.5 cm)
S. 24 x 13 1/8 in. (61 x 33.3 cm)

Signed with initials and numbered 6/50 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by the artist, with the SOLO Impression, New York (with their blindstamp), unframed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $5,040

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 19 - 21 April 2022