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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

Spider

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010


Spider

signed with the artist's initials (lower right); variously inscribed (on the verso)

watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper

10 by 8 in.

25.4 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1994. 

Acquired directly from the artist as a gift in 1994 by the present owner
New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works from 1982-1993, April - July 1993
Gent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, This is the show and the show is many things, September - November 1994
University of California at Berkeley, University Art Museum and New York, The Drawing Center, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings, January - June 1996, illustrated in color 
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, November 1999 - February 2000
Kunsthaus Bregenz; Krakow, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art; Warsaw, Zacheta Gallery of Art and Berlin-Brandenburg, Akademie der Kunste, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture, July 2002 - August 2003, p. 97, illustrated in color
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 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, March 2008 - June 2009, p. 315
Exh. Cat., Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois: Skulpturen und Installationen, September - October 1994, no. 112, p. 169, illustrated in color
Louise Bourgeois and Larry Rinder, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings & Observations, Berkely, 1995, p. 179, illustrated in color
Paulo Herkenhoff, Louise Bourgeois, Rio de Janeiro, 1996, p. 33, illustrated
Petra Vethman, "Als ik geen kunst zou maken zou ik sterven, an interview with Louise Bourgeois," Elegance (Amsterdam), no. 4, vol. 55, April 1998, p. 111, illustrated