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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)

$1,925,000≈ £1,334,581≈ €1,689,337Sign uprecord price · incl. premiumUntitled (The Wedges)Phillips262lots offered2001–2026years recorded93%sold (237)$8.7kSign up free to seemedian price

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  1. Untitled (The Wedges) by Louise Bourgeois, 1950/1991, cast bronze and stainless steel, sold May 2016Untitled (The Wedges)Phillips · $1,925,000≈ £1,334,581≈ €1,689,337Sign up to see
  2. Couple by Louise Bourgeois, 2002, fabric and hanging piece in aluminium, glass and wood vitrine, sold Jun 2022CouplePhillips · £869,500≈ $1,052,356≈ €1,013,147Sign up to see
  3. Nature Study by Louise Bourgeois, 1996, biscuit porcelain, sold Jun 2017Nature StudyPhillips · £725,000≈ $940,398≈ €823,970Sign up to see

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  1. Ode à la Bièvre (Ode to the Bièvre) (MoMA 380b-403b) by Louise Bourgeois, 2007, The complete set of two digital prints, on Verona paper, with accompanying to scale reproduction of the fabric book of t, sold Apr 2021
    Ode à la Bièvre (Ode to the Bièvre) (MoMA 380b-403b), 2007
    The complete set of two digital prints, on Verona paper, with accompanying to scale reproduction of the fabric book of the same title made in 2002 (bound as issued), all contained in the original brown paper-covered slipcase, also with an unbound set of the reproductions · Paper · ed. 50/95
    Slipcase 12 x 16 3/8 x 1 in. (30.5 x 41.6 x 2.5 cm)
    Phillips · · Lot 376
    $10,710≈ £7,669≈ €8,887Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $5,000–7,000View at Phillips ↗
  2. Pink Days (MoMA 149.1) by Louise Bourgeois, 2008, Screenprint in black and pink, on smooth wove card stock paper, with full margins, sold Apr 2021
    Pink Days (MoMA 149.1), 2008
    Screenprint · Paper · ed. 144/175
    I. 6 3/4 x 10 in. (17.1 x 25.4 cm) S. 8 1/2 x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
    Phillips · · Lot 377
    $5,040≈ £3,609≈ €4,182Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,000–5,000View at Phillips ↗
  3. DISMEMBERMENT by Louise Bourgeois, 1994, Drypoint and roulette, 9/44, sold Apr 2021
    DISMEMBERMENT, 1994
    Drypoint · ed. 9/44
    the sheet 52cm x 37.5cm (20.5in x 14.75in)
    Lyon & Turnbull · · Lot 168
    £2,125≈ $2,934≈ €2,469Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. £1,500–2,000View at Lyon & Turnbull ↗
  4. Untitled from the Anatomy portfolio by Louise Bourgeois, 1990, etching, sold Feb 2021
    Untitled from the Anatomy portfolio, 1990
    Etching
    19½ h x 14 w in (50 x 36 cm)
    Rago Auctions · · Lot 309
    $4,375≈ £3,155≈ €3,628Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $1,000–View at Rago Auctions ↗
  5. EX-LIBRIS by Louise Bourgeois, Lithograph with embossing, 198/300, 2005, sold Jan 2021
    EX-LIBRIS
    Lithograph · ed. 198/300
    11.5cm x 8cm (4.5in x 3.25in) full sheet, unframed
    Lyon & Turnbull · · Lot 162
    £688≈ $942≈ €778Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. £700–900View at Lyon & Turnbull ↗
  6. I Said Yes With My Eyes (MoMA. 1000) by Louise Bourgeois, 2004, Unique soft-ground etching with hand-additions in watercolour, gouache, and coloured pencil, on handmade Dieu Donné pape, sold Jan 2021
    I Said Yes With My Eyes (MoMA. 1000), 2004
    Etching · Paper · ed. 10/12
    I. 43.2 x 45.7 cm (17 x 18 in.) S. 65.1 x 54.6 cm (25 5/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
    Phillips · · Lot 67
    £50,400≈ $69,139≈ €56,867Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. £25,000–35,000View at Phillips ↗
  7. Give or take II by Louise Bourgeois, 1991, Bronze mit braungoldener Patina, sold Dec 2020
    Give or take II, 1991
    Sculpture
    8 × 24 × 23 cm
    Grisebach · · Lot 833
    €18,750≈ $22,798≈ £16,928Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €15,000–20,000View at Grisebach ↗
  8. Hamlet and Ophelia by Louise Bourgeois, 1997, lithograph in colors on wove paper, sold Nov 2020
    Hamlet and Ophelia, 1997
    Lithograph · Paper
    29½ h x 41½ w in (75 x 105 cm)
    Rago Auctions · · Lot 378
    $7,500≈ £5,710≈ €6,361Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,500–View at Rago Auctions ↗
  9. Toi et moi by Louise Bourgeois, 2006, Screenprint in black and red, on woven fabric, sold Oct 2020
    Toi et moi, 2006
    Screenprint · Paper · ed. 88/125
    Sheet. 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (20 x 27.6 cm)
    Phillips · · Lot 239
    $9,828≈ £7,505≈ €8,314Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $4,000–6,000View at Phillips ↗
  10. Reply to Stanley Hayter by Louise Bourgeois, 1996, Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, the full sheet, sold Oct 2020
    Reply to Stanley Hayter, 1996
    Lithograph · Paper
    S. 27 x 30 in. (68.6 x 76.2 cm)
    Phillips · · Lot 240
    $6,300≈ £4,811≈ €5,329Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,000–5,000View at Phillips ↗
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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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