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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Lot 267

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

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Closed15 October 2011

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GBP 121,250

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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
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unbound etching and hand painted mixed-media book of seventeen pages
each page: 33 x 54in. (83.8 x 137.2cm.)
Executed in 2004, this work is number three from an edition of nine unbound unique variants (18)

Carolina Nitsch, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Specialist note

'[Louise Bourgeois's] work is by turns aggressive and pathetic, sexually charged and physically awkward, tense and shapeless. It employs an imagery of encounter to render concrete an almost inescapable sense of solitude. In short, it is physically, if not always formally, rich stuff.' (R. Hughes in Nothing if Not Critical , London 1990, pp. 285-286).