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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

Woman with Packages

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November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

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1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010


Woman with Packages

incised with the artist's initials and numbered 1/6 (on the reverse) 

painted bronze and stainless steel

65 by 18 by 12 in. 165.1 by 45.7 by 30.5 cm.

Conceived in 1949 and cast in 1989, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.

Acquired directly from the artist in May 1990 by the present owner
New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Recent Work 1947-1949: Seventeen Standing Figures in Wood, October 1949 (wood example) (titled Woman Carrying Packages
New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture 1941-1953: Plus One New Piece, September - October 1949 (wood example) 
Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois: Bronzes of the 40's and 50s, October - November 1990, p. 126, illustrated (another example) 
Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Louise Bourgeois Personages, 1940s/Installations, 1990s, July - September 1993 (another example) 
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, September - October 1994, p. 88, illustrated (wood example)
Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, Between Transcendence and Brutality, September - November 1994 (another example) 
Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, October - November 1994 (another example)
Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo; and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, October 1994 - August 1996, p. 54, illustrated (another example) 
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environments, dessins 1938-1995, June - October 1995, p. 71, illustrated (another example) 
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Louise Bourgeois Der Ort des Gedächtnisses: Skupturen, Environments und Zeichnungen 1946-1995, July - October 1996, p. 63, illustrated (another example) 
Salzburg, Rupertinum, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures and Objects, July - October 1996 (another example) 
XXIII International São Paulo Bienal, Louise Bourgeois, October - December 1996 (another example) 
Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, February - April 1997, p. 6, illustrated (installed in XXIII International São Paulo Bienal, 1996) and p. 8, illustrated (another example) 
Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Frauenmacht und Mannerherrschaft im Kulturvergleich, November 1997 - March 1998 (another example) 
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Louise Bourgeois, February - March 1999 (another example) 
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, November 1999 - February 2000, pl. 16, p. 134, illustrated and p. 176 (another example) 
Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum; Wisconsin, Madison Art Center; and Aspen Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, May 2002 - February 2003, no. 30, p. 84, illustrated in color (another example)
São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; and Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Forbidden Desire, July - November 2011 (another example) 
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Personages, May - June 2012, p. 45, 72, illustrated in color, p. 95, illustrated (installed in New York, Peridot Gallery, 1949) (wood example) and pp. 91, 95, 97, illustrated (present example) 
Beijing, Faurschou Foundation; and Copenhagen, Faurschou Foundation, Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together, October 2012 - February 2014, p. 21, illustrated in color (in installation) p. 133, illustrated in color and pp. 134-135, illustrated in color (detail) (another example)
Stockholm, Moderna Museet; and Málaga, Picasso Museum, Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back, February - September 2015, no. 17, p. 45, illustrated in color and p. 279 (another example) 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, September 2017 - January 2018 (another example) 
Shanghai, Long Museum West Bund, Louise Bourgeois: The Eternal Thread, November 2018 - February 2019, p. 24, illustrated in color (on the catalogue insert) and illustrated in color (in installation) (another example) 
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; and Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, February - September 2020, p. 367, illustrated in color and p. 405 (another example)
Kunstmuseum Basel, The Violence of Handwriting Across the Page, February -May 2022 (another example) 
Zürich, Bahnhofstrasse, Hauser & Wirth, The God That Failed: Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, June - September 2023 (another example)
Vienna, Belvedere, Louise Bourgeois: Persistent Antagonism / Permanente Widerredez, September 2023 - January 2024, p. 124, illustrated (another example)
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, November 2023 - April 2024 (another example) (forthcoming)
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 1982, p. 55, illustrated (installed in New York, Peridot Gallery, 1949) (wood example) 
Catherine Flohic and Daniel Dobbels, "Louise Bourgeois," Ninety, 1994, p. 4 (another example)
Robert Pincus-Witten, "Louise Bourgeois," Artforum, November 2008 (online) (another example)
Philip Larratt-Smith, ed., Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, United Kingdom, 2012, no. 5, p. 159, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Galerie Karsten Greve: 40 Years, Cologne; 20 Years, Paris; 10 Years, St. Moritz, 2009, p. 126, illustrated (in installation) (another example)
Kwon Mee-yoo, "Bourgeois' earlier workers explore solitude," The Korea Times, 4 June 2012 (online) (another example)
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2016, p. 131, illustrated (installed in New York, Peridot Gallery, 1949), pp. 147, 316, 378 (another example)
Qilan Shen, "Louise Bourgeois," Noblesse Art Now, 26 November 2018, p. 25, illustrated (another example)
Kelly Burke, "Bourgeois spiders and Kandinsky masterpieces: Sydney set for a summer of blockbuster art," The Guardian, 13 February 2023 (online) (another example)