Live Auction 14996Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Lot 622 Contemporary Drawings Collected by Martina Yamin

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

Tadpole

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 22,500

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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Tadpole
signed and embossed with the artist's initials 'LB' (lower right) ; titled 'tad pole' (on the interior of the folded sheet); inscribed 'thedoghouse' (on the reverse)
gouache and watercolor on folded paper
5 ¼ x 12 1/8 in. (13.3 x 30.8 cm.)
Executed in 1997.

Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"All my work is suggestive; it is not explicit. Explicit things are not interesting because they are too cut and dried and without mystery" — Louise Bourgeois