Louise Bourgeois

French · 1911–2010 · Painter, Printmaker

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter… (Wikipedia)

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$1,925,000≈ £1,334,581≈ €1,689,337Sign uprecord price · incl. premiumUntitled (The Wedges)Phillips2016262lots offered2001–2026years recorded93%sold (237)$8.7kSign up free to seemedian price

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Untitled (The Wedges)Phillips · May 2016$1,925,000≈ £1,334,581≈ €1,689,337Sign up to see
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Paris Review (MoMA 567), 1994
Etching · Paper · ed. 27/35
I. 31 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (80.6 x 59.7 cm) S. 36 5/8 x 27 3/4 in. (93 x 70.5 cm)
Phillips · Oct 24, 2023 · Lot 368
$13,970≈ £11,435≈ €13,140Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $6,000–9,000View at Phillips ↗
The Worm, 1989
Sculpture · ed. 1/6
26 x 30 x 57 cm (10 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.)
Phillips · Oct 12, 2023 · Lot 149
£317,500≈ $390,843≈ €368,060Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. £300,000–500,000View at Phillips ↗
Ohne Titel, 1989-94
Lithograph · Paper · ed. 12/40
28 x 22cm
Van Ham · Sep 27, 2023 · Lot 40
€6,600≈ $6,954≈ £5,729Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €5,000–View at Van Ham ↗
Progression (MoMA 549.2), 1990
Engraving · Paper · ed. 3/27
I. 16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (42.5 x 27.6 cm) S. 25 7/8 x 19 3/4 in. (65.7 x 50.2 cm)
Phillips · Sep 6, 2023 · Lot 92
$2,794≈ £2,223≈ €2,600Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $2,000–3,000View at Phillips ↗
Untitled (I Have Been to Hell and Back), 2007After the artist
Cotton Lawn embroidered handkerchief · ed. 333/1000
31 x 30 cm (12 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Phillips · Jun 7, 2023 · Lot 222
£4,064≈ $5,066≈ €4,727Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. £1,500–2,000View at Phillips ↗
"The Endless Loop", 2008
Archival dyes, Stoff und Metalldruckknöpfe auf zwei zusammengenähten Stoffbahnen
44,5 x 59,5cm
Van Ham · Jun 5, 2023 · Lot 526
€132,000≈ $141,108≈ £113,944Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €50,000–View at Van Ham ↗
Ohne Titel, 2005 (Entwurf)
Sculpture · ed. 2/6 + AP
42 x 10 x 10,5cm
Van Ham · Jun 5, 2023 · Lot 53
€277,200≈ $296,327≈ £239,282Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €100,000–View at Van Ham ↗
Art is the Guaranty of Sanity (from the What is the Shape of This Problem portfolio), 1999
Lithograph · Paper
12 h x 17 w in (30 x 43 cm)
Rago Auctions · Jun 1, 2023 · Lot 366
$5,040≈ £4,044≈ €4,712Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $6,000–View at Rago Auctions ↗
Red Room (parents), detail
Screenprint
20⅞ h x 29⅞ w x ⅛ d in (53 x 76 x 0 cm)
Rago Auctions · Jun 1, 2023 · Lot 368
$5,040≈ £4,044≈ €4,712Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $700–View at Rago Auctions ↗
My Hand, 2002
Lithograph
11 h x 8½ w in (28 x 22 cm)
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · Apr 26, 2023 · Lot 272
$17,640≈ £14,152≈ €15,980Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $4,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗

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About Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

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