Louise Bourgeois - Phillips x Artsy: Summer School 2018 New York Thursday, June 28, 2018 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Deborah Wye and Carol Smith 108; The Museum of Modern Art Cat. No. 1052

  • 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 (Maggot), from Anatomy portfolio

1989-90
Drypoint, on Somerset paper, with full margins.
I. 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm.)
S. 19 1/2 x 14 in. (49.5 x 35.6 cm.)

Signed with initials and annotated 'PP 2' in pencil (a printer's proof, the edition was 44, there were also 10 artist’s proofs), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York, unframed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $2,500

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Phillips x Artsy: Summer School 2018

Online Auction 28 June - 11 July 2018