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
CouplePhillips · Jun 2022£869,500≈ $1,052,356≈ €1,013,147Sign up to see
Nature StudyPhillips · Jun 2017£725,000≈ $940,398≈ €823,970Sign up to see

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Jitterbugging Spiders, 1998
Lithograph · Paper
S. 18 1/4 x 24 in. (46.4 x 61 cm)
Phillips · Oct 26, 2015 · Lot 298
$8,750≈ £5,709≈ €7,947Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $5,000–7,000View at Phillips ↗
Mirror for Red Room; and Insomnia, 1996
Lithograph · Paper · ed. HC
mirror I. 23 1/8 x 17 in. (58.7 x 43.2 cm) mirror S. 25 x 19 1/2 in. (63.5 x 49.5 cm) insomnia I. 16 1/2 x 15 3/8 in. (41.9 x 39.1 cm) insomnia S. 19 1/2 x 25 in. (49.5 x 63.5 cm)
Phillips · Oct 26, 2015 · Lot 299
$9,375≈ £6,117≈ €8,514Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $5,000–7,000View at Phillips ↗
Couples, 2001
Lithograph · Paper · ed. 115/150
S. 44 1/2 x 26 in. (113 x 66 cm)
Phillips · Oct 26, 2015 · Lot 300
$3,500≈ £2,284≈ €3,179Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $3,000–5,000View at Phillips ↗
Crochet II (from Crochet Series), 1998
Print (other) · Paper
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · Oct 11, 2015 · Lot 432
$10,000≈ £6,507≈ €8,793Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $7,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
Gesicht
Gouache
28 × 21,8 cm
Grisebach · Jun 6, 2015 · Lot 1368
€5,500≈ $6,170≈ £4,024Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €3,000–View at Grisebach ↗
Femme Maison, 1984
Aquatint · Paper
26 × 11 cm
Grisebach · Jun 6, 2015 · Lot 1369
€3,625≈ $4,067≈ £2,652Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €2,500–3,000View at Grisebach ↗
Self portrait, 1990/1994
Etching · Paper · ed. 54/60
68.5 x 49 cm
Lempertz · May 30, 2015 · Lot 658
€3,472≈ $3,809≈ £2,496Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. €2,500–View at Lempertz ↗
Crochet IV (from Crochet Series), 1998
Print (other) · Paper
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · May 17, 2015 · Lot 187
$8,750≈ £5,585≈ €7,724Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $7,000–View at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) ↗
Untitled, 1998
Drawing · Paper
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Phillips · May 15, 2015 · Lot 153
$32,500≈ £20,689≈ €28,690Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $20,000–30,000View at Phillips ↗
Spider Woman, 2005
Dryprint in red, on handmade paper with `LB' watermark, with full margins, · Paper · ed. 19/25
I. 6 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (16.8 x 23.5 cm) S. 13 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (34.3 x 33.7 cm)
Phillips · Apr 21, 2015 · Lot 187
$9,375≈ £6,297≈ €8,762Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $6,000–9,000View 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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