Louise Bourgeois

Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Sydney (acquired from the above)

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, Stable Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculpture, 7 - 30 January 1964, (plaster version)

New York, Sculptors Guild Inc. at Lever House, Sculpture 1964, 18 October – 26 November 1964, p. 8, illustrated, (iron version)

New York, The Sculptor’s Guild, Inc., Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, 22 October – 19 November 1967, p. 10, illustrated, (plaster version reproduced) (iron version exhibited)

New York, 112 Greene Street, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1970-1974, 14 - 26 December 1974, (iron version)

New York, Grey Art Gallery, Selections from the New York University Art Collection, 22 September – 16 October 1976, (iron version)

New York, Grey Art Gallery, Small Sculpture, 1 February – 31 March 1981, (iron version)

Chicago, Renaissance Society, Louise Bourgeois: Femme Maison, 3 May – 6 June 1981, no. 22, (iron version)

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Akron, Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 3 November 1982 - 8 February 1983, no. 83, p.70, illustrated (plaster version), p. 71 (plaster version installed in New York, Stable Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculpture, January 1964), and no. 27, p. 115 (plaster version installed in the artist’s studio, West 20^th Street, August 1982) 

New York, Jamaica Arts Center, Sculpture from the Collection of the Gray Art Gallery and Study Center, 24 September – 10 December 1983, (iron version)

Paris, Galerie Maeght-Lelong and Zurich, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective 1947 – 1984, February – May 1985, p. 22, illustrated, (iron version)

London, Serpentine Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, 18 May – 23 June 1985 (marble version)

Miami, Florida International University, Louise Bourgeois, 23 October 1987 - 18 November 1987, (plaster version)

Boston, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Undercurrents: Rituals and Translations, 20 October 1987 - 29 November 1987, (plaster version)

New York, Dia Art Foundation, Louise Bourgeois: Works from the Sixties, 8 June 1989 - 9 July 1989,(plaster version)

Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, 18 April - 6 June 1989, no. 75, p. 417, illustrated in colour, (iron version)

New York, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Louise Bourgeois Sculpture, 18 May 1989 - 11 June 1989, (plaster version)

Zurich, Galerie Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: 100 Zeichnungen 1939-1989, September 1989 - October 1989, (iron version)

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum; Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois, 2 December 1989 - 8 July 1991, no. 36, p. 88, illustrated, (plaster version)

Columbus, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, The Ohio State University, Inaugural Exhibition Part II - Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, 18 May 1990 - 5 August 1990, (plaster version)

Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger Wien, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, 18 May 1990 - 12 June 1990,(plaster version)

Denver, Ginny Williams Gallery, Bourgeois: Four Decades, 19 October 1990 - 31 December 1990, (plaster version)

Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Louise Bourgeois Personages, 1940s/ Installations, 1990s, 31 July 1993 - 8 September 1993, (plaster version)

Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois: Skulpturen und Installationen, 3 September - 30 October 1994, no. 24, n.p., illustrated in colour (plaster version)

Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Montréal, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, The Locus of Memory. 15 March 1995 - 22 September 1996, (plaster version)

Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois, 14 October 1995 - 31 December 1995 (plaster version)

Salzburg, Rupertinum, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures and Objects, 24 July 1996 - 27 October 1996, (plaster version)

Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo; and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La Elegancia de la Ironía, 15 June 1995 - 15 August 1996, no. 31, p.59, illustrated in colour (bronze version) 

Madrid, Galerie Soledad Lorenzo, Louise Bourgeois, 28 November 1996 - 18 January 1997 (bronze version)

Seattle, The Henry Art Gallery, Inside, 13 April 1997 - 29 June 1997, p. 26 (bronze version reproduced) (plaster version exhibited)

Milan, Fondazione Prada, Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, 15 May – 20 July 1997, p. 199, illustrated (plaster version)

Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, 2 November 1997 - 15 January 1998, no. 33, p.68, illustrated in colour (plaster version)

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture, 16 November 1999 - 14 February 2000, no. 26, n.p., illustrated (plaster version)

Kyungki-Do, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, 7 September - 5 November 2000, no. 25, p. 122, illustrated (plaster version) 

Zurich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Louise Bourgeois: Works in Marble, 24 May - 27 July 2002, no. 47, p. 49, illustrated in colour, (marble version)

New York, Dia Center for the Arts, Louise Bourgeois Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon, 17 May 2003 (bronze version)

Zurich, Daros Exhibitions, Louise Bourgeois: Emotions Abstracted - Works 1941-2000, 12 March - 12 September 2004, fig. 24, n.p., illustrated in colour (plaster version)

Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction, 20 April - 29 June 2007, no. 5, p. 52, illustrated in colour (marble version), and n.p. (installation view)

London, Tate Modern and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 10 October 2007 - 2 June 2008, no. 154, p.164, illustrated in colour (plaster version), and p. 284, illustrated (plaster version installed in the artist’s studio)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 27 June 2028 - 7 June 2029 (bronze version)

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Louise Bourgeois, March - June 2008, no.183, p.183, illustrated in colour (plaster version)

The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Bellmer / Bourgeois – Double Sexus: Supplemental Installation, 11 September 2010 - 16 January 2011 (bronze version)

Buenos Aires, Fundación PROA, Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, 19 March – 19 June 2011 (bronze version)

Sao Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Louise Bourgeois: The Return of Forbidden Desire, 8 July - 13 November 2011, (bronze version)

Doha, Qatar Museums Authority, QMA Gallery, Katara, Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious, 20 January 2012 - 1 June 2012, p. 72, illustrated (marble version)

Beijing, Faurschou Foundation and Copenhagen, Faurschou Foundation, Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together, October 2012 - February 2014, n.p., illustrated in colour, (marble version)

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman, 27 November 2013 - 2 March 2014, no. 8, illustrated (bronze version)

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Sammlungshangung Bourgeois, 12 October 2013 - 12 January 2014

Munich, Haus der Kunst; Moscow, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Bilbao, Guggenheim Bilbao, Louise Bourgeois - Structures of Existence: The Cells, 27 February 2015 – 4 September 2016, p. 39, illustrated

New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Inventing Downtown: Artist Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965, 10 January 2017 - 1 April 2017 (iron version)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait – Prints, Books and Creative Process, 24 September 2017 - 28 January 2018, no.62, p.82, illustrated in colour (plaster version)

New York, Cheim & Read, Louise Bourgeois: Spiral, 8 November - 22 December 2018, p. 18, illustrated in colour (bronze version)

Beijing, Song Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Eternal Thread, 23 March 2019 - 23 June 2019 p.30, illustrated, (bronze version)

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Fantastic Women. Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, 13 February 2020 -27 September 2020 (bronze version)

New York, LGDR, Stage Fright,7 April 2022 - 18 June 2022, illustrated p. 374, (bronze version)

New York, Tina Kim Gallery, House for the Inhabitant Who Refused to Participate, 6 December 2022 - 21 January 2023, (bronze version) 

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, 25 November 2023 - 28 April 2024, (bronze version)

Tokyo, Mori Art Museum and Taipei City, Fubon Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful, 25 September 2024 - 30 June 2025, illustrated p. 139

Hong Kong, Hauser & Wirth, Louise Bourgeois. Soft Landscape, 25 March 2025 – 21 June 2025 (marble version)

Lucy Lippard, “Louise Bourgeois: From the Inside Out,” Artforum, vol. 13, March 1975, p. 32, illustrated (plaster version)

Exh. Cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Bourgeois Truth, December 1982, n.p., illustrated (plaster version)

Henry Geldzahler, Louise Bourgeois, New York 1989, p. 13, illustrated (plaster version)

Wexner Center for the Arts, Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America, 1950 – 1990, New York 1991, p. 108, illustrated in colour (plaster version)

Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing For Free Fall, Zurich 1992, p.20, illustrated (plaster version)

Marie-Laure Bernadac, Louise Bourgeois, Paris 1996, p.68, illustrated (plaster version)

Rainer Crone and Petrus Graf Schaesberg, Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells, Munich 1998, p. 56, no. 84, illustrated (plaster version)

Petra Vethman, “Als ik geen kunst zou maken zou ik sterven, an interview with Louise Bourgeois.” Elegance, no. 4, April 1998, illustrated (another version)

Barbara Catoir and Mary Jane Jacob, Louise Bourgeois. Germany 1999, p. 69, illustrated (plaster version)

Andrea Jahn, Louise Bourgeois - Subversionen Des Körpers: Die Kunst der 40er bis 70er Jahre, Berlin 1999, no. 109, p. 211, illustrated (plaster version)

Thomas Kellein, Louise Bourgeois, Germany 1999, p.10, illustrated (plaster version)

Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, eds., Louise Bourgeois, Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997, London 2000, p.86, illustrated (plaster version)

Olesya Turkina, Louise Bourgeois: Pandora’s Box, Saint Petersburg 2001, p.42, illustrated (plaster version)

Robert Storr, Paulo Herkenhoff and Allan Schwartzman, eds., Louise Bourgeois, London 2003, p.60, illustrated in colour (bronze version)

Mignon Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, Cambridge Massachusetts 2005, p. 226, illustrated (plaster version)

Exh. Cat. Istanbul, Istanbul Modern, Centre of Gravity, September 2005 – January 2006, p.131, illustrated in colour (plaster version)

Flammarion Contemporary, Louise Bourgeois, Paris 2006, p.9, illustrated in colour (plaster version)

Philip Larratt-Smith, ed., Louise Bourgeois: the Return of the Repressed Volume I, London 2012, no.14, n.p., illustrated (plaster version)

Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016, p.308, illustrated in colour (plaster version), and p.326 illustrated (plaster version)

Robert Storr, Interviews on Art, London 2017, p. 62, illustrated (plaster version)

Qilan Shen, “Louise Bourgeois,” Noblesse Art Now, 26 November 2018, p. 27, illustrated (bronze version) 

Justin Paton, eds., Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, Sydney 2023, p. 99, illustrated (bronze version)