Louise Bourgeois - Evening & Day Editions New York Friday, October 25, 2019 | Phillips
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    Museum of Modern Art Cat. No 223/II

  • 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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Baby and Butterfly, State II

2007
Drypoint, engraving and collaged cloth in colors, on smooth wove Whatman paper, with full margins.
I. 7 x 5 3/4 in. (17.8 x 14.6 cm)
S. 12 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (30.8 x 24.4 cm)

Signed and numbered 14/15 in pencil and dated on the reverse (there were also 4 artist's proofs), published by Harlan & Weaver, New York, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $8,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 October 2019