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Louise Bourgeois

The Rectory

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:15 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louise Bourgeois

1911 - 2010


The Rectory

incised with the initials LB, date 02, number 1/6 and stamped with the foundry mark (on the base of the silver house)

silver sculpture in steel, glass and wood vitrine with three mirrors

67 by 24 by 24 in.

170.2 by 61 by 61 cm.


Executed in 2002, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6, plus 1 artist's proof.

Cheim & Read, New York
Private Collection, Newport Beach (acquired from the above in 2006)
Sotheby’s New York, 11 May 2011, lot 178
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Cologne, Galerie Karsten Greve, Louise Bourgeois, 2003 (another example exhibited) 
Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Art and Architecture 1900-2000, 2004-2005 (another example exhibited)
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, 2005, pp. 85, 87-88, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover (another example exhibited)
Munich, Haus der Kunst; Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois, Structures of Existence: The Cells, 2015-2017