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LOUISE BOURGEOIS | REJECTION MAKES ME WILD [A DOUBLE-SIDED DRAWING]
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July 16, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
1911 - 2010
REJECTION MAKES ME WILD [A DOUBLE-SIDED DRAWING]
ink, graphite and white-out on paper
Sheet: 9 by 11¾ in. (22.9 by 29.9 cm.)
Framed: 17½ by 19¾ in. (44.5 by 50.2 cm.)
Executed in 2002.
Cheim & Read Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture, August - September 2002, illustrated, p. 187 (exhibition catalogue)
Warsaw, Zacheta Gallery of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire, January - February 2003, illustrated, p. 133 (exhibition catalogue)
Berlin-Brandenburg, Akademie der Künste, Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Abstractions, June - July 2003, illustrated, p. 29 (exhibition catalogue)
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Louise Bourgeois: Back and Forth, November 2005 - February 2006, illustrated, p. 158 (exhibition catalogue)
“[A] ferocious desire for independence is present in all the work… a determination to survive at whatever fragile level you can achieve.”
- Louise Bourgeois