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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Day Auction | 236 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Untitled |
Works on Paper
27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8.5 in)
ink on paper
signed (lower right)
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
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.
