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  • Catalogue Essay

    Trust yourself. In your art you must tell your own story and if you tell your own story, you will be interesting.
    Louise Bourgeois

  • 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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The Song of the Blacks and the Blues

1989-96
Lithograph and woodcut with hand-coloring, on Japanese paper, the full sheet,
S. 21 1/2 x 96 in (54.6 x 243.8 cm)
signed and annotated `SOLO IMP. I' in pencil (a publisher's proof, the edition was 40 and artist's proofs), published by Solo Impression, New York, in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$9,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $11,250

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm