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Louise Bourgeois, The Architecture of Memory: Works from a Private Collection | 私人收藏:露易絲・布爾喬亞,記憶的建築

Louise Bourgeois

Mamelles | 《乳房》

Auction Closed

March 25, 08:05 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Louise Bourgeois, The Architecture of Memory: Works from a Private Collection

私人收藏:露易絲・布爾喬亞,記憶的建築


Louise Bourgeois

露易絲・布爾喬亞

1911 - 2010

Mamelles

《乳房》



signed with the artist's initials, dated 2003 and numbered 3/6 on the reverse 

款識:藝術家簽姓名縮寫、紀年2003並標記3/6(背面)

pigmented urethane rubber

著色聚氨酯橡膠

51.7 by 304.8 by 50 cm. 20 ¼ by 120 by 19 ⅝ in.

51.7 x 304.8 x 50 公分;20 1/4 x 120 x 19 5/8 英寸

Conceived in 1991 and cast in 2003, 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 2006

C. Leigh, ‘Rooms, Doors, Windows: Making Entrances and Exits (when necessary). Louise Bourgeois’ Theatre of the Body’, Balcon, No. 8-9, 1992, pp. 36-37, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

C. Flohic and D. Dobbels, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Ninety, No. 15, 1994, p. 71, illustrated (edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois, 1999, pp. 75-76, illustrated (edition no. unknown) 

R. Storr, P. Herkenhoff and A. Schwartzman, Eds., Louise Bourgeois, London 2003, p. 24, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

B. Nemitz, Ed., Pink, the Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture, Berlin 2006, p. 99, illustrated (edition no. unknown) 

C. Pommereau, Ed., ‘Louise Bourgeois au Centre Pompidou’, Beaux Arts Magazine, March 2008, pp. 26-27, illustrated (edition no. unknown) 

G. D’Amato and Robert Rademacher, Eds., Galerie Karsten Greve: 40 Years, Cologne; 20 Years, Paris; 10 Years, St. Moritz, Cologne 2009, p. 127, illustrated (edition no. unknown) 

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum den Haag, Hans Bellmer / Louise Bourgeois: Double Sexus, 2010-11, pp. 94-95, illustrated (edition no. unknown) 

R.  Storr, Intimate Geometries, The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London 2016, p. 498 (text), and p. 500, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)