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Louise Bourgeois

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Description

  • Louise Bourgeois
  • Friendly Evidence
  • signed with initials and numbered 1/6
  • bronze
  • with base: 70 x 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. 177.8 x 31.7 x 31.7 cm.
  • This work was cast in 1987 and is number 1 from an edition of 6 plus one artist's proof. The bronze version is based on a wood sculpture of the same title from 1947-49.

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, November 17, 1998, lot 12
Cheim & Read, New York
C&M Arts, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2001

Exhibited

Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, November 1988 - January 1989 (cast number unknown)
Chicago, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, September - October 1989 (cast number unknown)
Santa Monica, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, February - March 1990 (cast number unknown)
Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois: Bronzes of the 1940s and 1950s, October - November 1990 (cast number unknown)
Monterrey, Galerie Ramis Barquet, Louise Bourgeois, October - November 1993 (cast number unknown)
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, January - February 1995 (cast number unknown)
Westford, Gallery Joseloff, Harry Jack Gray Center, University of Hartford, Louise Bourgeois, November - December 1996 (cast number unknown)
Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, March - April 1997 (cast number unknown)
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts; London, Whitechapel Gallery, Inside the Visible, January - December 1996 (cast number unknown)
Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Louise Bourgeois, December 1999 - February 2000 (cast number unknown)
New York, C&M Arts, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, April - June 2001, pl. 16, illustrated in color (cast number unknown)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La Elegancia de la Ironia, 1995, p. 51, no. 23, illustration of another example
Exh. Cat., Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, 1997, p. 52, illustrated (cast number unknown)
Exh. Cat., Champaign, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois (and traveling), Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, 2002, p. 89, illustrated (cast number unknown)