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Louise Bourgeois
Topiary, The Art of Improving Nature portfolio: Plate 4
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- $7,000 - 9,000
Lot Details
Etching with drypoint, on Magnani Incisione paper, with full margins,
1988
I. 21 7/8 x 29 7/8 in (55.6 x 75.9 cm)
S. 28 x 39 in (71.1 x 99.1 cm)
S. 28 x 39 in (71.1 x 99.1 cm)
signed, dated `98' and annotated `hors-commerce' in pencil (the edition was 28 and 10 artist's proofs), published by Julie Sylvester-Cabot and the Whitney Museum of American Art Editions, New York, in very good condition, framed.
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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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