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Louise Bourgeois
Mirror for Red Room; and Insomnia
- Estimate
- $5,000 - 7,000
$9,375
Lot Details
Two lithographs in red, on wove paper, with full margins,
1996
mirror I. 23 1/8 x 17 in. (58.7 x 43.2 cm)
mirror S. 25 x 19 1/2 in. (63.5 x 49.5 cm)
insomnia I. 16 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (41.9 x 39.1 cm)
insomnia S. 19 1/2 x 25 in. (49.5 x 63.5 cm)
mirror S. 25 x 19 1/2 in. (63.5 x 49.5 cm)
insomnia I. 16 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (41.9 x 39.1 cm)
insomnia S. 19 1/2 x 25 in. (49.5 x 63.5 cm)
both signed and numbered `HC 4/5' and `HC 1/5' in pencil respectively (hors commerce, the editions were 25 and 5 artist's proofs), published by Fundaçao Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, both 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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