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LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)

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11.05.2023 07:00UTC -04:00
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ID 949545
Lot 61 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)

Spring

incised with the artist's signature, title and number 'SPRING LOUISE BOURGEOIS 2/7' (on the base)

bronze, painted white

60 x 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (152.4 x 29.2 x 29.2 cm.)

Conceived in 1948-1949 and executed in 1960. This work is number two from an edition of six plus one artist's proof.





Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above the late owner, 1982



Literature

W. Andersen, American Sculpture in Process: 1930/1970, Boston, 1975, p. 93, fig. 3b (wood version illustrated).

W. Zimmer, "Sculpture at the Whitney," New York Times, 21 July 1985, p. 18.

Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Robert Miller Gallery, 1986, n.p. (wood version illustrated).

C. Haenlein, ed., Louise Bourgeois Sculptures and Installations, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1994, n.p., no. 11 (another example illustrated).

M. L. Bernadac, Louise Bourgeois, Paris, 1996, p. 60 and 174.

Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, 1997, p. 104 and 158 (wood version illustrated).

L. Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois, Cologne, 1999, pp. 50-51 (another example illustrated).

Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, exh. cat., Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, 2002, pp. 17, 19, 23 and 35, fig. 10 and 15 (wood version illustrated on the cover).

M. Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, Cambridge, 2005, p. 120, fig. 4.1 (wood version illustrated).

Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2007, p. 33, fig. 17 (another example illustrated).

Galerie Karsten Greve: 40 Years, Cologne; 20 Years, Paris; 10 Years, St. Moritz, Cologne, 2009, p. 126 (another example illustrated).

Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012, p. 58, fig. 17 (another example illustrated).

Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, exh. cat., Seoul, Kukje Gallery, 2012, pp. 23, 33, 34, 37, 42, 79, 80 and 84 (wood version illustrated).

I. Müller-Westermann, ed., Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back, exh. cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, 2015, p. 235, no. 54 (wood version illustrated).

R. Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2016, pp. 134, 233, 305, 318 and 533 (wood version illustrated).

M. L. Bernadac, ed., Louise Bourgeois and Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire, Zurich, 2019, p. 156 (wood version illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, October 1950 (wood version exhibited).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, April-June 1956, no. 6 (wood version exhibited).

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Aspects de la Sculpture Américaine, September-October 1960 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Musée Rodin, Les Etats-Unis: Sculpture du XX Siècle, April-May 1965 (another example exhibited).

New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1941-1953 Plus One New Piece, September-October 1979 (wood version exhibited).

University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Louise Bourgeois: Femme Maison, May-June 1981, n.p., no. 17 (wood version and another example exhibited and illustrated).

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 1982-January 1984, pp. 37, 54, 55 and 60, pl. 1, 39, 42 and 59 (wood version and another example exhibited and illustrated).

Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, Forming, July-September 1984, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, November-December 1984 (another example exhibited).

Paris and Zurich, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective 1947-1984, February-May 1985, pp. 15 and 29, no. 8 (wood version and another example exhibited and illustrated).

London, Serpentine Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, May-June 1985 (another example exhibited).

Stamford, Whitney Museum of American Art, Affiliations: Recent Sculpture and Its Antecedents, June-August 1985 (another example exhibited).

New York, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Group Show, May-June 1987 (another example exhibited).

Baltimore, George Dalsheimer Gallery, Contemporary Sculpture, October 1987 (another example exhibited).

San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1947-1955, November-December 1987 (another example exhibited).

Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Selected Works 1946-1989, September-October 1989 (another example exhibited).

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Kunstmuseum Bern and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989-July 1991, p. 53, no. 13 (another example exhibited and illustrated; Lyon: pp. 46 and 55, no. 13 (another example exhibited and illustrated)).

Santa Monica, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Bronze Sculpture and Drawings, February-March 1990 (another example exhibited).

Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, The Origins of Modern Art, May-July 1990 (another example exhibited).

Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger Wien, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May-June 1990 (another example exhibited).

Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois: Bronzes of the 1940s and 1950s, October-November 1990 (another example exhibited).

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, June-August 1992 (another example exhibited).

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, September-October 1994, n.p., no. 11 (another example exhibited).

The Saint Louis Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, June-August 1994, p. 54, no. 17 (wood version exhibited and illustrated).

Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, November 1997-January 1998, p. 59, pl. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Landesgalerie Linz, Sculpture - Figure - Woman, April-May 1998 (another example exhibited).

Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Frauenmacht und Mannerherrschaft im Kulturvergleich, November 1997-March 1998 (another example exhibited).

Hanover, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Louise Bourgeois, February-March 1999 (another example exhibited).

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Artworlds in Dialogue, October 1999-April 2000 (another example exhibited).

New York, C&M Arts, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, April-June 2001, n.p., no. 12 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum; Helsinki City Art Museum; Stockholm, Kulturhuset; Oslo, Museet for Samtidskunst and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois, October 2001-June 2003, pp. 42-43 (another example exhibited and illustrated; Humlebaek: pp. 28 and 72, no. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated)).

Havana, Wifredo Lam Center, Louise Bourgeois: One and Others, February-April 2005 (another example exhibited).

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, June 2008-May 2009 (another example exhibited).

Städtische Museen Jena, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, September-November 2010, p. 43 (another example exhibited and illustrated).

Reykjavik, National Gallery of Iceland, Louise Bourgeois: Kona / Femme, May-September 2011, n.p., no. 2 (another example exhibited and illustrated).



Post Lot Text

Spring is an edition of six plus one artist's proof. Bourgeois originally referred to the overall edition size as seven, which accounts for the number '2/7' on the base. Later casts are numbered out of six, when the artist moved to referring to the overall edition size as 'edition of six plus one artist's proof.'
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