Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from an Important European Collection
Louise Bourgeois
Listening One
Auction Closed
May 19, 12:05 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important European Collection
Louise Bourgeois
1911 - 2010
Listening One
incised with the artist's signature, titled and numbered 3/7 (on the base)
bronze, painted white
79 ⅞ by 20 by 12 in.
203 by 50.8 by 30.5 cm.
Conceived in 1947 and cast in 1982, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above in September 1983)
Sotheby's, London, 26 June 2019, lot 10 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Private Collection, Miami (acquired from the above in September 1983)
Sotheby's, London, 26 June 2019, lot 10 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Albert Elsen, "Notes on the Partial Figure," Artforum, vol. 8, November 1969, pp. 58-63
John Russell, "Art: The Sculpture of Louise Bourgeois," The New York Times, 5 October 1979, illustrated (installed in New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, 1979)
Barbara Rose, "Two American Sculptors: Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Graves," Vogue, January 1983, p. 223, illustrated (another example)
Alain Kirili, "The Passion for Sculpture - A Conversation with Louise Bourgeois," Arts, vol. 63, March 1989, p. 70, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois - Skulpturen und Installationen, 1994, no. 2, p. 21, illustrated in color and p. 193 (another example)
Griselda Pollock, "Seeing Red: Drawing Life in Recent Works on Paper by Louise Bourgeois," Parkett, No. 82, May 2008, p. 58, illustrated in color (another example)
Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, New Jersey, 2011, p. 44, illustrated in color (another example)
Exh. Cat., Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Personages, May - June 2012, p. 82 (installed in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008)
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London, 2016, p. 211, illustrated in color (another example)
John Russell, "Art: The Sculpture of Louise Bourgeois," The New York Times, 5 October 1979, illustrated (installed in New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, 1979)
Barbara Rose, "Two American Sculptors: Louise Bourgeois and Nancy Graves," Vogue, January 1983, p. 223, illustrated (another example)
Alain Kirili, "The Passion for Sculpture - A Conversation with Louise Bourgeois," Arts, vol. 63, March 1989, p. 70, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Louise Bourgeois - Skulpturen und Installationen, 1994, no. 2, p. 21, illustrated in color and p. 193 (another example)
Griselda Pollock, "Seeing Red: Drawing Life in Recent Works on Paper by Louise Bourgeois," Parkett, No. 82, May 2008, p. 58, illustrated in color (another example)
Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, New Jersey, 2011, p. 44, illustrated in color (another example)
Exh. Cat., Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Personages, May - June 2012, p. 82 (installed in Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008)
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London, 2016, p. 211, illustrated in color (another example)
New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Recent Work 1947-1949: Seventeen Standing Figures in Wood, October 1949 (wood example exhibited) (titled Attentive Figures)
New York, The American Federation of Arts, New Directions, October 1962 - May 1963 (another example exhibited) (titled Attentive Figures)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture, December 1969 - February 1970, no. 11, p. 72, illustrated (another example exhibited) (titled Attentive Figures)
Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, From Women’s Eyes, May - June 1977, n.p., (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture 1941-1953. Plus One New Piece, September - October 1979 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 1982 - January 1984, no. 62, p. 60 (installed in New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, 1979) and p. 61, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Maeght-Lelong; Zurich, Maeght-Lelong; and London, Serpentine Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective 1947-1984, February - June 1985, p. 15 (installed in New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1982) and p. 20, illustrated (installed in New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, 1979) (another example exhibited)
Scottsdale, Riva Yares Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, February 1987 (another example exhibited)
Miami, Florida International University, Louise Bourgeois, October - November 1987 (another example exhibited)
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum; and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989 - July 1991, no. 2, p. 60, illustrated and p. 184 (another example exhibited)
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May - June 1990 (another example exhibited)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, June - August 1994, no. 12, p. 49, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environments, dessins 1938-1995, June - October 1995, p. 61, illustrated in color and p. 222 (another example exhibited)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Louise Bourgeois Der Ort des Gedächtnisses: Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen 1946-1995, January - March 1996, p. 53, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Westford, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Louise Bourgeois: The Forties and Fifties, November - December 1996, n.p., (another example exhibited)
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Louise Bourgeois, April - September 1996 (another example exhibited)
Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, November 1997 - January 1998, no. 20, pp. 54-55, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Sacred and Fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois, March - May 1998 (another example exhibited)
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Louise Bourgeois, February - March 1999 (another example exhibited)
Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; Madison Art Center; and Aspen Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, May - February 2003, no. 19, p. 23, illustrated (in the artist's studio) and p. 74, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Part Object Part Sculpture, October 2005 - February 2006, p. 41, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, October 2007 - June 2009, fig.1, no. 199, pp. 12, 210, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College, Hessel Museum of Art, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now, June - December 2011 (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Carré d'Art-Musée d'Art Contemporain Nîmes, Biographical Forms: Construction and Individual Mythologies, November 2013 - September 2015, no. 39, p. 135, illustrated and p. 359 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016, March - September 2016, p. 54, illustrated in color and p. 216 (another example exhibited)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Twosome, September 2017 - February 2018 (another example exhibited)
New York, The American Federation of Arts, New Directions, October 1962 - May 1963 (another example exhibited) (titled Attentive Figures)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture, December 1969 - February 1970, no. 11, p. 72, illustrated (another example exhibited) (titled Attentive Figures)
Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, From Women’s Eyes, May - June 1977, n.p., (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture 1941-1953. Plus One New Piece, September - October 1979 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 1982 - January 1984, no. 62, p. 60 (installed in New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, 1979) and p. 61, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Paris, Maeght-Lelong; Zurich, Maeght-Lelong; and London, Serpentine Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective 1947-1984, February - June 1985, p. 15 (installed in New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1982) and p. 20, illustrated (installed in New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, 1979) (another example exhibited)
Scottsdale, Riva Yares Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, February 1987 (another example exhibited)
Miami, Florida International University, Louise Bourgeois, October - November 1987 (another example exhibited)
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum; and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989 - July 1991, no. 2, p. 60, illustrated and p. 184 (another example exhibited)
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May - June 1990 (another example exhibited)
Saint Louis Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, June - August 1994, no. 12, p. 49, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environments, dessins 1938-1995, June - October 1995, p. 61, illustrated in color and p. 222 (another example exhibited)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Louise Bourgeois Der Ort des Gedächtnisses: Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen 1946-1995, January - March 1996, p. 53, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Westford, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Louise Bourgeois: The Forties and Fifties, November - December 1996, n.p., (another example exhibited)
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Louise Bourgeois, April - September 1996 (another example exhibited)
Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, November 1997 - January 1998, no. 20, pp. 54-55, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Sacred and Fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois, March - May 1998 (another example exhibited)
Hanover, Dartmouth College, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Louise Bourgeois, February - March 1999 (another example exhibited)
Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois; Madison Art Center; and Aspen Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, May - February 2003, no. 19, p. 23, illustrated (in the artist's studio) and p. 74, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Part Object Part Sculpture, October 2005 - February 2006, p. 41, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, October 2007 - June 2009, fig.1, no. 199, pp. 12, 210, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College, Hessel Museum of Art, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now, June - December 2011 (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Carré d'Art-Musée d'Art Contemporain Nîmes, Biographical Forms: Construction and Individual Mythologies, November 2013 - September 2015, no. 39, p. 135, illustrated and p. 359 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016, March - September 2016, p. 54, illustrated in color and p. 216 (another example exhibited)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Twosome, September 2017 - February 2018 (another example exhibited)