A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim
Louise Bourgeois
Untitled (Fingers)
Auction Closed
March 1, 09:28 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim
Louise Bourgeois
1911 - 2010
Untitled (Fingers)
stamped with the initials LB, number 2/6, the foundry mark and date 99 (on the shorter edges)
bronze
4 by 8½ by 18½ in.
10.2 by 21.6 by 47 cm.
Conceived in 1986 and executed in 1999, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.
The artist
Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Cincinnati, The Taft Museum; Miami, The Art Museum at Florida International University; Austin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum; St. Louis, Gallery of Art, Washington University; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois, May 1987 - November 1989, n.p., illustrated
Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, Louise Bourgeois, May - November 2007, no. 19, p. 53, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, October 2007 - June 2008 (another example exhibited)
Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Visceral Sensation - Voices So Far, So Near, April - September 2013, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Di Donna, The Life of Forms, October - December 2018, p. 18 and pp. 46-47, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016, p. 502
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