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LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)

Lot 28
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Lot 28 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
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stamped with the artist's initials, foundry mark, number and date 'L.B. 2/6 93' (lower edge)
painted bronze, polished bronze, stainless steel and mirror
60 ¼ x 12 1/8 x 12 1/8in. (153 x 30.5 x 30.5cm.)
Conceived in 1947-1949 and cast in 1993, this work is number two from an edition of six plus one artist's proof




Provenance

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne.
Private Collection.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017.



Literature

M. Seuphor, The Sculpture of this Century, New York, 1959 (studio view of wood version illustrated, p. 240).
Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, exh. cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada,1997 (studio view of wood version illustrated, pp. 93-104; 160 and 161).
Louise Bourgeois. Jenny Holzer. Helmut Lang, exh. cat., Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, 1999 p. 118, (wood version illustrated, p. 8).
A. Jahn, Louise Bourgeois: Subversionen des Körpers, Berlin 1999 (installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979 illustrated, p. 113).
Louise Bourgeois chez Karsten Greve, exh. cat., Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, 1999, p. 42 and 215 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 43).
Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, exh. cat., Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, 2002 (studio view of wood version illustrated, pp. 22-23).
Louise Bourgeois: Life as Art, exh. cat., Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2003, p. 77, no. 13 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 18).
Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Abstraction, exh. cat., Berlin, Akedemie der Künste, 2003 (installation at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979 illustrated, p. 76).
A. Coxon, Louise Bourgeois, London 2010 (studio view of wood version, p. 24).
R. Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London, 2016, pp. 818 and 825 (wood version illustrated in colour, p. 216; studio view of wood version illustrated, p. 279).



Exhibited

New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work 1947-1949. Seventeen Standing Figures in Wood, 1950 (wood version exhibited).
New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures 1941-1953, Plus One New Piece, 1979 (wood version exhibited).
Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Louise Bourgeois: Femme Maison, 1981, p. 8, no. 1 (wood version exhibited; installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979 illustrated, p. 4).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 1982-1983, p. 120, no. 51 (wood version exhibited and illustrated, p. 58; installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979 illustrated, pp. 37 and 60).
Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Louise Bourgeois Personages: 1940 / Installations 1990s, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited).
Saint Louis, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, 1994, no. 14 (wood version exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 51; installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979 illustrated, p. 79).
Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Escultura de Louise Bourgeois La Elegancia de la Ironía,1995, p. 90, no. 10 (wood version exhibited and illustrated, p. 49). This exhibition later travelled to Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo.
Boston, The Institue of Contemporary Art, Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine, 1996, p. 487. This exhibition later travelled to Washington, National Museum of Arts and London, Whitechapel Gallery.
New York, CRG Gallery, La Toilette de Venus: Women and Mirrors, 1996 (another from the edition exhibited).
Boston, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Pleasure,1998-1999 (another from the addition exhibited).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, 1999-2000, pp. 32 and 276, no. 15 (wood version exhibited and illustrated, p. 33).
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Louise Bourgeois Prints 1989-1998, 1999-2000 (another from the edition exhibited).
New York, C&M Arts, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, 2001, pp. 19 and 52, no. 4 (another from the edition exhibited, p. 20).
St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, Louise Bourgeois at the Hermitage, 2001-2003, pp. 40, 98 and 100 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 41). This exhibition later travelled to Helsinki, Helsinki City Art Museum; Stockholm, Kulturhuset and Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst and Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Works and Days: New Acquisitions 2000-2004, 2004 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Tate Modern, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 2007-2009, p. 311 (wood version exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Centre Pompidou; New York, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Jena, Städtische Museen Jena, Louise Bourgeois: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, 2010, p. 138 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated, p. 28).
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Personages, 2012, p. 47, no. 46 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated, pp. 42 and 72; installation view, artist's studio in New York, p. 21; installation view, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982 wood version illustrated, p. 78; installation view, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, 1994, p. 80; installation view, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2012 pp. 92- 94).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells, 2015, p. 272 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 48).
Madrid, Reina Sofia, 2015-2017 (another from the edition exhibited on loan).
Shanghai, Long Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Persistent Antagonism 2018-2019 (another from the edition exhibited, detail illustrated in colour, p. 32, installation view at The Museum of Modern Art New York 1982 illustrated, p. 139 and illustrated in colour, p. 33).
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Louise Bourgeois: Has The Day Invaded The Night Or Has The Night Invaded The Day?, 2023, p. 277 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 91).
Vienna, Belvedere, Louise Bourgeois: Persistent Antagonism, 2023-2024, p. 211 (another from the edition exhibited and illustrated in colour, p. 146).
Tokyo, The Mori Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: I Have been to hell and back and let me tell you, it was wonderful, 2024-2025 (another from the edition exhibited).



Further Details

The wood version is in the Collection of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Another from the edition is in the Louise Bourgeois Trust Collection and on long term loan to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
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