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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

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70,000 - 100,000 USD

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010


Untitled

signed (lower right)

ink on paper

11 by 8½ in.

27.9 by 21.6 cm.

Executed in 1949.

Acquired directly from the artist as a gift in 1991 by the present owner
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Surreal, May - June 1983
Paris, Maeght-Lelong and Zurich, Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospektive 1947-1984, February - May 1985
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Drawings 1939 - 1987, January 1988
Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings 1939-1987, October - December 1988
Paris, Gallerie Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Dessins 1940-1986, February - March 1989
Tampa Museum of Art; Little Rock, Arkansas Art Center and Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, Between Transcendence and Brutality: American Sculptural Drawings from the 1940s and 1950s, January - November 1994
Kyungki-Do, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, September - November 2000, no. 10, p. 98, illustrated in color
Oakland, Mills College Art Museum; Boise Museum of Art; University of Richmond, Marsh Art Gallery; Durham, University of New Hampshire; El Paso Museum of Art; Lexington, University of Kentucky Art Museum; New Orleans, Tulane University, Newcomb Gallery and Metropolitan State College of Denver, Center for the Visual Arts, True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, September 2001 - April 2002, no. 7
New York, Peter Blum, Louise Bourgeois - Works on Paper from the 1940's and 1950's, September - November 2006
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Women - Surreal Worlds From Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, February - September 2020, p. 359, illustrated in color
John Cheim and Jerry Gorovoy, eds., Louise Bourgeois Drawings, New York, 1988, p. 75, illustrated in color
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2016, p. 268, illustrated in color