LOUISE BOURGEOIS | Untitled

Robert Miller Gallery, New York
RenBen Gala and Art Auction, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993

Houston, Texas Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures and Drawings, November - December 1986
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings 1939-1987, January 1988, p. 81, illustrated
Amsterdam, Museum Overholland, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper 1939-1988, October - December 1988
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d'art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum; Otterlo Kröller-Muller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989 - July 1991
Zurich, Galerie Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: 100 Zeichnungen 1939-1989, September - October 1989, cat. no. 35, n.p., illustrated
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger Wien, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May - June 1990
Paris, Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Helsinki City Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Pensées-plume, February - July 1995, pp. 59 and 93, illustrated in each respective museum’s catalogue

Miquel Tàpies, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Lucy Lippard, Robert Storr, Rosalind Krauss, Thomas McEvilley, Eds., Louise Bourgeois, Spain 1990, n.p.
Catherine Flohic and Daniel Dobbels, Eds., Louise Bourgeois, Charenton-le-Pont Cedex 1994, cat. no. 15, p. 25, illustrated 
Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York 2016, p. 194, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board at the top edge. There are artist’s pinholes at the top left corner, center top edge, and top right corner. The left and bottom edge of the sheet are deckled. There is very minor, pale time staining to the perimeter of the sheet. There is some minor scattered stray media and minor rubbing to the medium, particularly at the center, likely from the time of execution. Under very close inspection and with raking light, there is a soft linear crease to the left center edge of the sheet. Framed under Plexiglas.
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