Louise Bourgeois - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 16, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz

  • 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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Les Herbes Folles

2002
Crayon, ink and pencil on paper.
22.5 x 29.8 cm (8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in).
Initialed 'LB' lower right.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £21,250

Contemporary Art Day Sale

17 Oct 2009
London