Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Spider
signed with artist’s initials ‘L. B.’ (lower right)
oil on panel
8 1/8 x 9 7/8in. (20.5 x 25.2cm.)
Executed in 1994

Collection of the Artist.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York.
Karsten Greve Galerie, St. Moritz.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1994, 1994-1996. This exhibition later travelled to Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum and Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, Environnements, Dessins 1938-1995, 1995.
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995, 1996.

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‘My best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and useful as a spider’
(L. Bourgeois, Ode à ma mère, suite of nine prints with text in portfolio, 1995).

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