Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Louise Bourgeois

Listening One

Auction Closed

October 14, 07:33 PM GMT

Estimate

1,300,000 - 1,800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010

Listening One


incised with the artist's signature Louise Bourgeois, titled Listening One and numbered 2/7 (on the base)

bronze with dark patina

203.2 by 51.1 by 31.12 cm. 80 by 20⅛ by 12¾ in.

Conceived in 1947 and cast in 1981, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof (wood original no longer extant; edition 1, 2 and AP dark patina; Edition 3, 4, 5 and 6 painted white).


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藝術人生:瑪林伉儷收藏

露易絲・布爾喬亞

1911 - 2010年

《聆聽者》



款識:銘刻藝術家簽名Louise Bourgeois、書題目Listening One並標記2/7(底座)

青銅及深色包漿

203.2 x 51.1 x 31.12 公分;80 x 20 ⅛ x 12 ¾ 英寸

1947年構思,1981年鑄造。1版6件,此作為第2件,另有1件藝術家自留版(原版木雕散佚,本版編號1、2及藝術家自留版的表面為深色包漿,編號3、4、5及6則塗有白色顏料)

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Midwest (acquired directly from the above in 1992)

Sotheby’s New York, 14 May 1998, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998

Albert Elsen, "Notes on the Partial Figure," Artforum, Vol. 8, November 1969, pp. 58-63 (text)

John Russell, "Art: The Sculpture of Louise Bourgeois," The New York Times, 5 October 1979, illustrated (installation view of Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture 1941-1953. Plus One New Piece, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, 1979)

Barbara Rose, "Two American Sculptors: Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Graves," Vogue, January 1983, p. 223, illustrated (bronze painted white, edition no. unknown)

Alain Kirili, "The Passion for Sculpture – A Conversation with Louise Bourgeois," Arts, vol. 63, March 1989, p. 70, illustrated (bronze with dark patina, edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois – Skulpturen und Installationen, September - October 1994, p. 21, no. 2, illustrated in colour (bronze painted white, edition no. unknown)

Griselda Pollock, "Seeing Red: Drawing Life in Recent Works on Paper by Louise Bourgeois," Parkett, No. 82, May 2008, p. 58, illustrated in colour (bronze painted white, edition no. unknown)

Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, New Jersey, 2011, p. 44, illustrated in colour (bronze painted white, edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Personages, May  June 2012, pp. 82 (in installation at Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2008) and 84 (installation view of Louise Bourgeois, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2009), illustrated (bronze painted white, edition no. unknown)

Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London, 2016, p. 211, illustrated in colour (bronze painted white, edition no. unknown)