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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Louise Bourgeois

Nature Study

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November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

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400,000 - 600,000 USD

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010


Nature Study

stamped with the artist's initials (on the lower edge)

bronze with black patina, with artist's base

sculpture: 30¼ by 20⅜ by 15¾ in. 76.8 by 51.8 by 40 cm.

base: 48½ by 25¾ by 22 in. 123.2 by 65.4 by 55.9 cm.

Conceived in 1984 and cast in 1985, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6 unique variants plus 1 artist's proof.

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in June 1989 by the present owner 

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, September - October 1984 (another example exhibited)

Zurich, Galerie Maeght-Lelong and Paris, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois Retrospektive 1947-1984, February - May 1985, no. 48, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

London, Serpentine Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, May - June 1985 (present example)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Selections from the Permanent Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, February - May 1986, p. 11, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Cincinnati, Taft Museum; Miami, Art Museum at Florida International University; Austin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art and Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois, May 1987 - November 1989, n.p., illustrated (present example)

Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum and Otterlo, Kroller-Muller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989 - July 1991, no. 95, p. 149, illustrated (Frankfurt), p. 151, illustrated (Lyon and Barcelona) (another example exhibited)

New York, Fisher Landau Center, Cave of Generation / Material Matters, May 1992 - March 1993 (present example)

45th Venice Biennale, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work, June - October 1993, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

New York, Brooklyn Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works1982-1993, April 1994 - September 1996, p. 91, illustrated in color (present example)

Monterrey, MARCO; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, June 1995 - January 1996 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Féminin-Masculin: Le Sexe de l’Art, October 1995 - January 1996, p. 87, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois, October 1995 - April 1996, no. 25, illustrated in color (on the cover) (another example exhibited)

Milan, Fondazione Prada, Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, May - July 1997, pp. 174-175, illustrated and p. 285 (another example exhibited)

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Sacred and Fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois, March - May 1998 (another example exhibited)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Pollock to Today, December 2000 - February 2002 (another example exhibited)

Bermuda, The Ace Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, August - October 2002 (another example exhibited)

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Femme, February - May 2006 (another example exhibited)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75, June - September 2006 (another example exhibited)

Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimente, Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte, October 2008 - January 2009, p. 177 and 179, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Center for Italian Modern Art, Alberto Savinio, October 2017 - June 2018, p. 40, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, David Zwirner, Endless Enigma: Five Centuries of Fantastic Art, September - October 2018 (another example exhibited)

New York, LX Arts, On the Turn: Selections from the Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, October 2019 - February 2020 (present example)

New York, Hauser & Wirth, To Form a More Perfect Union, November - December 2020 (another example exhibited)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022 (present example)

Los Angeles, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem?, September - December 2022 (another example exhibited)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (permanent collection) (another example)

Jeanne Silverthorne, "Reviews: Louise Bourgeois," Artforum, vol. 23, no. 4, December 1984, p. 81 (another example illustrated)

Tom Armstrong, et al., Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1984-85, vol. 7, New York, Winter 1986, pp. 41 and 55, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Richard Marshall and Robert Mapplethorpe, 50 New York Artists, San Francisco, 1986, p. 25, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Stuart Morgan, Louise Bourgeois, Cincinnati, 1987, pp. 9-10, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Donald Kuspit, Louise Bourgeois - Where Angels Fear to Tread," Artforum, New York, March 1988, p. 17, illustrated in color, (another example illustrated)

An Interview with Louise Bourgeois, New York, 1988, illustrated in color on the back cover (another example illustrated)

Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois, Zurich, 1992, p. 115, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Henry Geldzahler, "Louise Bourgeois," Interview, March 1992, p. 102, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Michael Kimmelman, "After Many a Summer, A Sculptor Comes of Age," New York Times, 30 August 1992, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Holland Cotter, "Review/Art: At the Whitney, Provocation and Theory Meet Head-On," New York Times, 13 August 1993

Holland Cotter, "Art Review: Dream Images of Mother and Home," New York Times, 29 April 1994

Elizabeth Hess, "Art: Do You Love Me? (Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982 - 1993)," Village Voice, 10 May 1994, p. 93

Catherine Flohic and Daniel Dobbels, "Louise Bourgeois," Ninety, no. 15, 1994, p. 41, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Suzanne Pagé and Beatrice Parent, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environnements, drawings 1938-1995, Paris, 1995, p. 153, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Mâhki Xenakis, The Blind Leading the Blind, France, 1988, p. 97, illustrated

Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions: 32/Eye to Eye, New York, 1999, p. 272, illustrated

Joseph Giovanni, "All About the Art - Emily Fisher Landau Chooses Her Palette in New York," Architectural Digest, October 2002, pp. 240-247, illustrated in color

Robert Storr, et. al., Louise Bourgeois, London, 2003, pp. 76 and 81, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Marie-Laure Bernadac, Louise Bourgeois, Paris, 2006, pp. 120, illustrated in color, pp. 122 and 206 (another example illustrated)

Eleanor Heartney et. al., After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Munich, London and New York, 2013, n.p., illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

A Juxtaposition: Gaston Lachaise - Louise Bourgeois, n.p., illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2016, pp. 404-405 and 448-449, illustrated in color (other examples illustrated)

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, pp. 22-24, illustrated in color (in installation)

Nicholas Hall, Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art, New York, 2019, p. 75, illustrated (another example illustrated)