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  • “To create is an act of liberation and every day this need for liberation comes back to me. In terms of making a statement in art, which do you prefer, to scream or to be silent? It depends on what you want.”
    —Louise Bourgeois

    • Provenance

      ARTWALK NY Auction to benefit Coalition for the Homeless, 2002 (courtesy of the artist)
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Catalogue Essay

      The ears represent two individuals trying to communicate with each other.

    • 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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Silence

2001-02
Patinated bronze multiple.
7 x 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (17.8 x 14.6 x 11.4 cm)
Incised with initials and numbered 4/15 on the side (there were also 3 artist's proofs), additionally incised with the Modern Art Foundry mark.

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Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $27,940

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