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Louise Bourgeois

Clutching

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Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010

Clutching


stamped with the artist's initials and numbered 4/6 on the reverse

bronze with golden brown patina

30.8 by 32.7 by 29.5 cm. 12⅛ by 12⅞ by 11⅝ in.

Conceived in 1962 and cast in bronze in 1999, this work is number 4 from an edition of 6, plus 1 artist's proof.

Galleri SE, Bergen
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005
New York, Stable Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculpture, January 1964 (plaster edition exhibited)
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Bourgeois Trust, November - December 1982, n.p., illustrated (plaster edition exhibited) 
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Akron, Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 1982 - January 1984, p. 71, no. 85 & 86, illustrated (plaster version exhibited)
Bridgehampton, Dia Art Foundation, Louise Bourgeois: Works from the Sixties, May - June 1989, p. 12, illustrated (plaster version exhibited)
Frankfurt, Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d'art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum; and Otterlo, Kröller- Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989 - July 1990, p. 89, no. 34, illustrated (plaster version exhibited)
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Louise Bourgeois: 1938-1989, May - June 1990 (plaster version exhibited)
Monterrey, MARCO; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo; and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, June 1995 - August 1996, p. 62, no. 29, illustrated (ed. 2/6 exhibited)
Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, November 1997 - January 1998, p. 68, no. 34, illustrated (plaster version exhibited)
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Louise Bourgeois: Architecture and Memory, November 1999 - February 2000, n.p., no. 25, illustrated (plaster version exhibited) 
Kyunggi-Do, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, September - November 2000, p. 125, no. 26, illustrated (plaster version exhibited) 
Oakland, Mills College Art Museum; Boise, Boise Museum of Art; Richmond, Marsh Art Gallery; Durham, University of New Hampshire; El Paso, El Paso Museum of Art; Lexington, University of Kentucky Museum of Art; New Orleans, Newcomb Gallery; and Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for the Visual Arts, True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, September - April 2004 (AP exhibited)
Beacon, Dia Center for the Arts, Louise Bourgeois Installation at Inauguration of Dia:Beacon, May 2003 - present (AP exhibited) 
London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois Retrospective, October 2007 - June 2009, p. 288, no. 290, illustrated in colour (plaster version exhibited) 
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Transformation AGO: Contemporary Art, 1960 - 1970, November 2008 - December 2009 (ed. 5/6 exhibited)
London, Hauser & Wirth, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, November - December 2009 (ed. 2/6 exhibited)
Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg; The Hague, Gemeentemuseum; and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Bellmer/Bourgeois - Double Sexus, April 2010 - July 2011, p. 79, illustrated (ed. 6/6 exhibited)
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art, Louise Bourgeois, May - September 2010 (ed. 2/6 exhibited)
Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA; Sao Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; and Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Louise Bourgeois: Forbidden Desire, March - November 2011, Vol. 1, p. 171, no. 13, illustrated (plaster version exhibited)
Micheal Fried, 'New York Letter', Art International, Vol. VIII, 25 April 1964, p. 58 (text)
Robert Storr, Paulo Herkenhoff and Allan Schwartzman, Louise Bourgeois, London 2003, p. 61, illustrated in colour (ed no. unknown)
Ann Coxon, Louise Bourgeois, London 2010, p. 43, illustrated in colour (plaster version)
Rainer Crone and Petrus Graf Schaesberg, Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells, Berlin 2011, p. 58, no. 87, illustrated in colour (plaster version)
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016, p. 309, illustrated in colour (plaster version)