Louise Bourgeois

The Artist
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz
Cais Gallery, Seoul (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Seoul  (acquired from above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2008

New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, October 1950 (wood version)
New York, VBH Contemporary Art Program, May - September 2003 (edition no. unknown)
Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum, Larger than Life: Women Artists Making it Big, June - August 2003 (edition no. unknown)

Exh. Cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Bourgeois Truth, 1982, illustrated (wood version) 
Exh. Cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, 1986, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Saint Louis, Saint Louis Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, 1994, p. 35, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Suzanne and Beatrice Parent, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environments, dessins 1938 - 1995, Paris, 1995, p. 37, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Deitchtorhallen Hamburg, Louise Bourgeois Der Ort des Gedächtnisses: Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen 1946 -1995, 1996, p. 29, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, 1997, p. 117, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, 1997, p. 111, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Rainer Crone and Petrus G. Schaesberg, Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells, Munich, 1997, p. 61, ilustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte - Reina Sofia, Louise Bourgeois: Architecture and Memory, 1999, p. 41, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Mignon Nixon, "Fantastic Reality", The Sculpture Journal, no. V, 2001, p. 84, illustrated (wood version)
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2003, p. 40, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Mignon Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, London, 2005, p. 128, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)
Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern (and travelling), Louise Bourgeois, 2007, fig. 217, p. 230, illustrated (installation of the wood version in the 1950 Peridot exhibition)

This work is in excellent condition overall. There are a few very faint signs of rubs to the patina lightly scattered in the lower 1/5 of the front of the piece (as illustrated in the catalogue).
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