Louise Bourgeois - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | Phillips
  • 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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Le Lit Gros Edredon (With Lips)

1997
Aquatint in colours, on Arches rag paper, with full margins,
I. 49.8 x 67.7 cm (19 5/8 x 26 5/8 in.)
S. 63.3 x 79.2 cm (24 7/8 x 31 1/8 in.)

signed, dated ‘97’ and numbered 93/100 in pencil, published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, with accompanying certificate of authenticity, in excellent condition, framed.

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£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £3,250

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Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm