Louise Bourgeois - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Thursday, November 17, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois, June 23 - October 8, 1995
    New York, Swiss Institute, Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Ilse Weber: Drawings and Works on Paper, May 28 - July 3, 1999

  • 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

signed with the artist's initials and dated "LB 1950" lower right
ink on paper
8 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (20.6 x 13.3 cm.)
Executed in 1950.

Estimate
$30,000 - 40,000 

Sold for $52,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 17 November 2016