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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House Struck by a Lightning Bolt, 1998
Drawing · Paper
9 h x 12 w in (23 x 30 cm)
Wright · Apr 27, 2010 · Lot 228
$25,000≈ £16,310≈ €18,811Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $20,000–View at Wright ↗
Eye, 1997
aluminum · ed. 15/25
4 x 4 x 5in (10 x 10 x 13cm)
Bonhams · May 4, 2009 · Lot 8113
$15,860≈ £10,672≈ €11,994Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $15,000–20,000View at Bonhams ↗
Untitled (Paris Review), 1994
Aquatint
31 h x 23 w in (79 x 58 cm)
Wright · Oct 28, 2001 · Lot 465
$518≈ £357≈ €575Price realizedSign up free to seeEst. $600–View at Wright ↗
Embracing the Tree, 2000
Drypoint · Paper · ed. 18/25
27 x 25 cm (image); 49.5 x 45.5 cm (sheet)
Ravenel · Jun 1, 2025 · Lot 084
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. NT$110,000–220,000View at Ravenel ↗
Untitled (double-sided), 2002
Drawing · Paper
29 x 20.1 cm (11 3/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Phillips · Dec 4, 2024 · Lot 72
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. £15,000–20,000View at Phillips ↗
Toi et Moi, 1989-2003
Etching · Paper
image: 40.4 x 7.4 cm (15 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.) each: 62.9 x 21.6 cm (24 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.) overall: 62.9 x 43.2 cm (24 3/4 x 17 in.)
Phillips · Oct 11, 2024 · Lot 162
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. £40,000–60,000View at Phillips ↗
Ambition (MoMA 1056), 1989
Drypoint · Paper
I. 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm) S. 14 x 19 1/2 in. (35.6 x 49.5 cm)
Phillips · Apr 16, 2024 · Lot 381
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $3,000–5,000View at Phillips ↗
Sheaves (MoMA 606.1), 1984
Lithograph · Paper · ed. 35/90
I. 31.5 x 20.9 cm (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.) S. 45.5 x 28.4 cm (17 7/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Phillips · Jan 17, 2024 · Lot 218
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. £1,500–2,000View at Phillips ↗
Untitled, 1998
ballpoint pen on paper · Paper · ed. BAT
27 x 22 cm (10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
Phillips · Apr 11, 2019 · Lot 134
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. £8,000–12,000View at Phillips ↗
The Loved Hand, 1967
Sculpture · ed. 3/6
9 x 12 1/8 x 8 in. (22.9 x 30.8 x 20.3 cm.)
Phillips · Nov 15, 2017 · Lot 350
Unsold / did not meet reserveEst. $180,000–250,000View 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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