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Louise Bourgeois

Ode á l'oubli

Lot Closed

March 16, 04:05 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010

Ode á l'oubli


signed and numbered 17/25 on cloth labels affixed to the inside front cover

fabric and color lithograph book, 36 pages

each: 10 5/8 by 13 3/8 in. 27 by 34 cm.

overall: 10 5/8 by 13 3/8 by 3 1/4 in. 27 by 34 by 8.2 cm.

Executed in 2004, this work is number 17 from an edition of 25, plus 7 artist's proofs, 2 printer's proofs, 3 publisher's proofs and 1 BAT.

Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Phillips, New York, 26 October 2016, Lot 69
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Amy Newman, "Louise Bourgeois Builds a Book from the Fabric of Life", New York Times, 17 October 17 2004 
Rebecca M. Nagy, American Selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville 2009, pp. 176-78, illustrated in color
Dylan Jones, "Honky Chateau", GQ, November 2009, pp. 249-51
Cornilia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz, Eds., Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, New York 2010, p. 277, illustrated in color 
Ann Coxon, Louise Bourgeois, London 2010, pp. 44-47 and 85, illustrated in color and illustrated on the cover
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016, p. 539, illustrated in color  
New York, Peter Blum Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Ode à l'Oubli, September - November 2004
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, April - May 2005, pp. 46-52, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Springtide, April - August 2005 (another example exhibited)
Istanbul Modern, Center of Gravity, September 2005 - January 2006, pp. 123-26, illustrated in color (another example exhbited)
Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Louise Bourgeois: Back and Forth, November 2005 - February 2006, pp. 86-120, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Louise Bourgeois: La Famille, March - June 2006 (another example exhibited)
Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Louise Bourgeois, August - September 2006
Kilkenny, Ireland, Butler Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints on Fabric, October - November 2006 (another example exhibited)
Worcester Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, October 2006 - February 2007 (another example exhibited)
Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Scenes and Sequences, Peter Blum Edition, New York, May - July 2007,  pp. 56-63, illustrated in color  (another example exhibited)
Sydney, Kaliman Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, August - September 2007
London, Marlborough Graphics, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Prints, October - November 2007, pp. 22-25, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina and Austin Museum of Art, The Lining of Forgetting, February - August 2008, pp. 59-61, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte, October 2008 - January 2009 (another example exhibited)
Boston University Art Gallery, The Shape of Abstraction, February - March 2010, p. 24, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Louise Bourgeois, February - June 2012, pp. 39-45, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Louise Bourgeois: Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, October  2012 - January 2013, cat. no. 25, pp. 90-91, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman, November 2013 - March 2014, cat. no. 51, n.p., (another example exhibited and illustrated )
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, September 2017 - January 2018, cat. no. 87, pp. 106-109, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, Louise Bourgeois: Fabric Works, September - November 2017 (another example exhibited)
Wassenaar, Museum Voorlinden, Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment, October 2019 - June 2020, pp. 86-87, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)