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Louise Bourgeois
Le Père et les 3 Fils (The Father and the 3 Sons), Version 2
- Estimate
- $2,500 - 3,500
$6,250
Lot Details
Lithograph and embossing with hand-coloring in blue pastel, on smooth wove paper, with full margins.
1999
I. 19 x 9 1/2 in. (48.3 x 24.1 cm)
S. 24 x 13 in. (61 x 33 cm)
S. 24 x 13 in. (61 x 33 cm)
Version II, state II (final), signed with initials and numbered 40/50 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by the artist to benefit Anthology Film Archives, New York, unframed.
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Catalogue Essay
According to the artist's assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, the imagery of chairs may have been influenced by Bourgeois's father and his chair collection. The embossed semicircle forms seen in Le Père et les 3 Fils may be in reference to the areas of raised, tufted fabric on the tapestry upholstered chairs in her father's collection. Louise Bourgeois, The Complete Prints & Multiples, Museum of Modern Art website
Literature
Louise Bourgeois
French-American | B. 1911 D. 2010Known 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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