Louise Bourgeois - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 28, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm

  • Catalogue Essay

    My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
    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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Louise Bourgeois

Autobiographical Series

1994
The complete set of 14 etchings, on Somerset paper, with full margins,
all I. various sizes;
smallest S.16 1/8 x 11 1/2 in (41 x 29.2 cm)
largest S. 22 3/8 x 15 in (56.8 x 38.1 cm)
all signed with initials and numbered 16/35 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York, all in very good condition, all framed.

Estimate
$35,000 - 45,000 

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Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm