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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

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100,000 - 150,000 USD

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010


Untitled

signed with the artist's initials (lower right); inscribed ink: meant luminosity (on the verso)

watercolor on paper

11¾ by 17½ in.

29.8 by 44.5 cm.

Executed in 1970.

Acquired directly from the artist as a gift circa 1987 by the present owner
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Louise Bourgeois Drawings, January 1988, p. 173, illustrated in color 
Amsterdam, Museum Overholland, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper 1939-1988, October - December 1988
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1989 - July 1991
Paris, Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Helsinki City Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Pensées-Plumes, February - July 1995, no. 71, p. 93
Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and New York, The Drawing Center, Louise Bourgeois Drawings, January - December 1996
Kyungki-Do, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, September - November 2000, no. 12, p. 99, illustrated in color
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture, July 2002 - September 2002, p. 81, illustrated in color
Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire, January - February 2003, p. 66, illustrated in color
Berlin-Brandenburg, Akademie der Künste, Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Abstractions, June - July 2003, no. 12, n.p., illustrated in color
Tokyo, The Obayashi Collection at Yu-un, Louise Bourgeois, End of Softness, March - May 2023
Louise Bourgeois and Larry Rinder, Eds., Louise Bourgeois: Drawings & Observations, Berkeley, 1995, illustrated in color (on the dust cover), p. 135, illustrated in color