The Ginny Williams Collection: Part II
The Ginny Williams Collection: Part II
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LOUISE BOURGEOIS | GIVE OR TAKE (HOW DO YOU FEEL THIS MORNING?)
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July 16, 05:14 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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LOUISE BOURGEOIS
1911 - 2010
GIVE OR TAKE (HOW DO YOU FEEL THIS MORNING?)
incised with the artist's initials and dated 90; stamped with the artist's foundry mark, 90 and XII AP
bronze
4½ by 9 by 6 in. (11.4 by 22.9 by 15.2 cm.)
Cast in 1990, this work is artist's proof 12 from an edition of 40, plus 13 artist's proofs.
The New Museum, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Charlotta Kotik, Terrie Sultan and Christian Leigh, Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, 1982-1993, New York, 1994, p. 110, illustrated
Denver, Metropolitan State College, Louise Bourgeois: Selections from the Ginny Williams Collection, March - April 2004
London, Tate Modern, and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, October 2007 - June 2008, edition no. AP 11/13 exhibited, listed in catalogue
Jena, Städtische Museen, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, September - November 2010, p. 57, illustrated (exhibition catalogue)
“You hack away, which is aggressive, and then you polish what you have made, and you oil it and you take care of it, and then you keep it for thirty years. That is a nurturing [process].”
- Louise Bourgeois