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Louise Bourgeois

Ode á l'oubli

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March 16, 04:05 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010

Ode á l'oubli


signed and numbered 17/25 on cloth labels affixed to the inside front cover

fabric and color lithograph book, 36 pages

each: 10 5/8 by 13 3/8 in. 27 by 34 cm.

overall: 10 5/8 by 13 3/8 by 3 1/4 in. 27 by 34 by 8.2 cm.

Executed in 2004, this work is number 17 from an edition of 25, plus 7 artist's proofs, 2 printer's proofs, 3 publisher's proofs and 1 BAT.

Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Phillips, New York, 26 October 2016, Lot 69
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
New York, Peter Blum Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Ode à l'Oubli, September - November 2004
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, April - May 2005, pp. 46-52, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Springtide, April - August 2005 (another example exhibited)
Istanbul Modern, Center of Gravity, September 2005 - January 2006, pp. 123-26, illustrated in color (another example exhbited)
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Louise Bourgeois: Back and Forth, November 2005 - February 2006, pp. 86-120, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Louise Bourgeois: La Famille, March - June 2006 (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Louise Bourgeois, August - September 2006
Kilkenny, Ireland, Butler Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints on Fabric, October - November 2006 (another example exhibited)
Worcester Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, October 2006 - February 2007 (another example exhibited)
Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Scenes and Sequences, Peter Blum Edition, New York, May - July 2007,  pp. 56-63, illustrated in color  (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Kaliman Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, August - September 2007
London, Marlborough Graphics, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Prints, October - November 2007, pp. 22-25, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina and Austin Museum of Art, The Lining of Forgetting, February - August 2008, pp. 59-61, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte, October 2008 - January 2009 (another example exhibited)
Boston University Art Gallery, The Shape of Abstraction, February - March 2010, p. 24, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Louise Bourgeois, February - June 2012, pp. 39-45, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Louise Bourgeois: Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, October  2012 - January 2013, cat. no. 25, pp. 90-91, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman, November 2013 - March 2014, cat. no. 51, n.p., (another example exhibited and illustrated )
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, September 2017 - January 2018, cat. no. 87, pp. 106-109, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, Louise Bourgeois: Fabric Works, September - November 2017 (another example exhibited)
Wassenaar, Museum Voorlinden, Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment, October 2019 - June 2020, pp. 86-87, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Amy Newman, "Louise Bourgeois Builds a Book from the Fabric of Life", New York Times, 17 October 17 2004 
Rebecca M. Nagy, American Selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville 2009, pp. 176-78, illustrated in color
Dylan Jones, "Honky Chateau", GQ, November 2009, pp. 249-51
Cornilia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, Eds., Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 2010, p. 277, illustrated in color 
Ann Coxon, Louise Bourgeois, London 2010, pp. 44-47 and 85, illustrated in color and illustrated on the cover
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016, p. 539, illustrated in color