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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Anatomy portfolio

1989
The complete set of twelve works comprised of eleven etchings and one collage of metal and plastic fastener, the prints on wove paper and the collage on colored blue paper,
all I. various sizes;
ten S. 19 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (49.5 x 35.9 cm);
one large S. 25 x 18 1/8 in. (63.5 x 46 cm);
fastener S. 11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)

all signed with initials and all but the collage annotated `B.A.T.' in pencil (aside from the edition of 44 and 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York, all in excellent condition, all unframed.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $31,250

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York