LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)

Lot 81
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Lot 81 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
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£ 280 000 – 350 000
LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)

Janus in Leather Jacket

incised with the artist’s initials, number and date ‘L.B. 4⁄6 92’ and stamped with the Modern Art Foundry mark ‘MAF’ (on the underside)

bronze

11 1⁄8 x 23 x 5 3⁄8in. (28.5 x 53.5 x 13.5cm.)

Conceived in 1968 and cast in 1992, this work is number four from an edition of six plus one artist’s proof





Provenance

The Artist.

Cheim & Read, New York.

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2007).

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 29 June 2016, lot 33.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.





Literature

J. Howell (ed.), Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950-1990, New York 1991, p. 298 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 99).

R. E. Krauss, Bachelors, Cambridge 1999, p. 55 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 56).

M. Bal, Louise Bourgeois’ Spider: The architecture of art-writing, London 2001, p. 66.

R. Storr, P. Herkenhoff and A. Schwartzman (eds.), Louise Bourgeois, London 2003, p. 118 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 119).

M. Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, London 2005, p. 326, no.6.21 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 244).

C. Pommereau (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois au Centre Pompidou: Beaux-Arts éditions’, in Beaux-Arts magazine special edition, March 2008 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 32).

M. Bösenberg, 40 Years, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, 20 Years, Galerie Karsten Greve. Paris, 10 Years, Galerie Karsten Greve AG. St. Moritz, Cologne 2009, pp. 12 and 120 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 13).

R. Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 338).

M-L, Bernadac (ed.), Louise Bourgeois and Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire, Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, 2019, p. 240 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 233).



Exhibited

New York, 112 Greene Street, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1970-1974, 1974 (another from the edition exhibited).

Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, 1984 (another from the edition exhibited).

New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, Sculpture, 1987 (another from the edition exhibited).

Boston, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Undercurrents: Rituals and Translations, 1987 (another from the edition exhibited).

New York, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Louise Bourgeois Sculpture, 1989 (another from the edition exhibited).

Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Louise Bourgeois: Works from 1943-1987, 1988-1989 (another from the edition exhibited).

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1989-1991, p. 188, no. 64 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated, p. 124). This exhibition later travelled to Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau; Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum.

Denver, Ginny Williams Gallery, Bourgeois: Four Decades, 1990 (another from the edition exhibited).

New York, David Zwirner Gallery, Coming to Power, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited).

Denver, Ginny Williams Family Foundation, Louise Bourgeois, 1993-1994 (another from the edition exhibited).

Salzburg, Salzburger Kunstverein, Real Sex, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 67).

Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, 1994 (another from the edition exhibited).

Helsinki, Nyktaiteen Museo, ARS 95 Helsinki, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited).

Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Escultura de Louise Bourgeois : La Elegancia de la Ironía, 1995-1996, p. 91, no. 45 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated, p. 68). This exhibition later travelled to Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo.

Curitiba, Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, XI Mostra da Gravura de Curitiba/Mostra America, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited).

Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, 1997-1998, no. 44 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated, p. 76).

Reykjavik, Reykjavik Arts Festival, 1998 (another from the edition exhibited).

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, 1999-2000, pp. 176 and 377, no. 37 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 177).

Seoul, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, 2000, p. 138, no. 34 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 139).

Beacon, Dia Center for the Arts, Louise Bourgeois Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon, 2003-2012 (another from the edition on extended loan).

Castello, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Micropolitics III: Art and Everyday Life, 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 76).

Havana, Wilfredo Lam Center, Louise Bourgeois: One and Others, 2005 (another from the edition exhibited; installation view illustrated, unpaged).

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Femme, 2006 (another from the edition exhibited).

Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, Artempo: Where Time becomes Art, 2007, no. 10 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour in the introduction, unpaged, and p. 71).

London, Tate Modern, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 2007-2009, p. 312, fig. 151 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 162). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art and Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte, 2008-2009 (another from the edition exhibited; installation view illustrated, pp. 51-52; illustrated in colour, p. 62).

Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois: A Stretch of Time, 2009 (another from the edition exhibited).

Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum and Schwules Museum, Homosexualities, 2015-2016, p. 219 (another from the edition exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 132). This exhibition later travelled to Münster, Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe Museum für Kunst und Kultur.

New York, Maccarone Gallery, Coming to Power, 2016 (another from the edition exhibited).

Germany, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, In the Cut – Der männliche Körper in der Feministischen Kunst, 2018 (another from the edition exhibited).

London, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Artists I Steal From, 2019 (another from the edition exhibited).

St. Moritz, Galerie Karsten Greve AG, Louise Bourgeois, 2021 (another from the edition exhibited).

Monaco, Hauser & Wirth, Louise Bourgeois, Maladie de l’Amour, 2021 (another from the edition exhibited).

Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Le Surréalisme dans l'art américain, p. 180, no. 130 (illustrated in colour, p.136) 2021 (another from the edition exhibited).

Monaco, Hauser & Wirth, Bodily Abstractions, 2022 (another from the edition exhibited).

Ireland, Lismore Castle Arts, girls girls girls, 2022 (another from the edition exhibited).





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