Louise Bourgeois - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 17, 2017 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 17 October 2017

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    Museum of Modern Art Cat. No. 418/X

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    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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Louise Bourgeois

Jeunesse (Youth)

1944
Etching aquatint and drypoint, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 5 x 7 1/2 in. (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
S. 7 7/8 x 11 3/8 in. (20 x 28.9 cm)
Signed, dated, titled, inscribed 'Youth' in pencil and 'Je suis lá, et tu ne vois pas.' (I am here, but you do not see me.) in black ink, and numbered 5/7 in pencil, one of six known variants of the tenth (final) state, framed.

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Sold for $9,375

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 17 October 2017