Louise Bourgeois - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | 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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Topiary, The Art of Improving Nature portfolio

1998
The complete set of nine etchings with aquatint (some in colors), on Magnani Incisione paper, with full margins,
40 3/8 x 29 in. (102.6 x 73.7 cm)
all signed, dated `98' and numbered 9/28 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Julie Sylvester Cabot and the Whitney Museum of American Art Editions, New York, all in excellent condition, contained in original irredescent pink fabric-covered folder.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York