Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
LOUISE BOURGEOIS, THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY: WORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
LOUISE BOURGEOIS | LIFE FLOWER I
Auction Closed
October 21, 07:16 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
LOUISE BOURGEOIS, THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY: WORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
1911 - 2010
LIFE FLOWER I
incised with the artist’s initials and numbered 3/6
painted bronze on bronze plinth with dark brown patina
overall: 120.5 by 89.5 by 57 cm. 47½ by 35¼ by 22½ in.
Conceived in 1960 and cast in 2010, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6, plus 1 artist’s proof.
The Artist
Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012
Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, New York 1986, n.p., illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version, incorrectly titled)
Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Louise Bourgeois, 1989-90, p. 18, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)
Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing For Free Fall, Zurich 1992 and 2016, p. 74 (1992) and p. 69 (2016), illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)
Rainer Crone and Petrus Graf Schaesberg, Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells, Munich 1998, p. 57, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version, incorrectly titled)
Robert Storr, Paulo Herkenhoff and Allan Schwartzman, Eds., Louise Bourgeois, London 2003, p. 147, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)
Exh. Cat., Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Louise Bourgeois: El Retorno de lo Reprimido: Escritos psicoanalíticos, writings by Louise Bourgeois, vol. II, 2011, p. 156, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)
Exh. Cat., São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Louise Bourgeois: O Retorno do Desejo Proibido, vol. II, 2011, p. 138, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)
Elisabeth Bronfen et. al., Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, vol. II, London 2012, p. 154, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries, The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London 2016, p. 307, illustrated (with the artist in her studio; plaster version)