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Lot 240
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Louise Bourgeois

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Louise Bourgeois
  • Untitled
  • signed with the artist's initials

  • ink and pencil on paper
  • 29 by 23cm.; 11 3/8 by 9in.
  • Executed in 1997.

Provenance

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois, 1999, p. 205, illustrated

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the red tend more towards a raspberry and the paper tone tends more towards cream in the original. Condition: The sheet is attached to the backing mount at the top two corners on the reverse. The top edge of the sheet is uneven. There is a light, shallow handling crease towards the centre of the right edge, and another towards the lower left corner. There is a transparent media accretion towards the centre on the extreme top edge, and a few further unobtrusive spots just beneath this.
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