Louise Bourgeois - New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • 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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Untitled (double-sided)

signed with the artist's initials 'LB' lower right; signed with the artist's initials, inscribed extensively and numbered 'LB 4700 BOUR - 5866' on the reverse
ink and pencil on music paper, double-sided
29 x 20.1 cm (11 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Executed in 2002.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

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New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

London Auction 4 December 2024