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Louise Bourgeois
Description
- Louise Bourgeois
- Avenza
inscribed with the artist's initials, number 6/6 and the foundry mark on the underside
- latex and fiberglass
- 21 by 30 by 46 in. 53.3 by 76.2 by 116.8 cm.
- Conceived in 1968-1969 and executed in 1992-2002, this work is number 6 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.
Provenance
Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired𓂃 by the present owner from the above inꦓ 2007
Exhibited
New York, John Good Gallery, Single Frame, March - April 1993 (another example exhibited)
Fukuoka City, Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium; Seoul, Walker Hill Art Center, Louise Bourgeois, August – November 1995, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Monterrey, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, The Sculpture of Louise Bourgeois: The Elegance of Irony, June - August 1996, pl. 31, p. 59, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Rubber, January – February 1998
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, November 1999 - February 2000, pl. 46, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Blumarts, Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama, June – September 2001 (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, September 2001 – May 2002, p. 313, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture, July – September 2002, p. 75, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Warsaw, Zacheta Gallery of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire, January – February 2003, p. 163, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Berlin-Brandenburg, Akademie der Künste, Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Abstraction, June – July 2003
New York, Danese Gallery, Sculpture, February – March 2005, pl. 9, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Louise Bourgeois: La Famille, March – June 2006 (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Akademie Der Kunste, Space: Places of Art, February 2007 – April 2007, p. 117, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, Louise Bourgeois, May - November 2007, pl. 8, p. 31, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Cheim & Read, Lynda Benglis Louise Bourgeois: Circa Seventies, June – August 2007 (another example illustrated)
London, TATE Modern; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, October 2007 – May 2009, p. 53, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, March 2007 – July 2007 (another example exhibited)
New York, Luhring Augustine, The Irreverent Object: European Sculpture from the 60s, 70s and 80s, November 2009 – December 2009 (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Nationalgalerie; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum; Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Bellmer / Bourgeois – Double Sexus, April 2010 – August 2011 (another example exhibited)
Literature
Exh. Cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, 1997, p. 146
Exh. Cat., Basel, The Beyeler Foundation, Eros and Modern Art, 2006, p. 170, illustrated in color
Condition
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