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Louise Bourgeois
We Love You, drawing on engraving signed inscribed unique variant X/X, Framed

2000

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About the Item

Louise Bourgeois We Love You, 2000 Engraving and watercolor with unique Ink drawing on Fabriano Paper Unique Variant with original hand coloring) Signed by the artist, inscribed "X" and dedicated to "Joachim" in pencil. Engraving with unique hand coloring in watercolor, gouache and blue and red ink drawing additions, a unique variant, Roman numberal X, aside from the regular edition. with full margins. (Executed in 2000, the regular edition was 30, plus 10 impressions in Roman numerals and 10 artist's proofs.) This work is dedicated to "Joachim". It was featured in the exhibition "Feminist Feminine", along with works by Louise Nevelson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, and others, at the Nohra Haime Gallery in Manhattan from Jan 25th – Mar 25th, 2016. "We Love You" was acquired from the Estate of Joachim Neugrosche - the prolific literary translator, essayist, art critic, poet, editor, and publisher, who translated more than 200 books from Yiddish, French, German, Russian, and Italian. The son of the Yiddish Galician poet Mendel Neugroschel, Joachim developed a special interest in Yiddish literature. He died in 2011 at the age of 73. This work is in excellent condition; unframed - and with a beautiful message - WE LOVE YOU. And we promise you: you will love it. Makes a memorable gift too. Works on paper by Louise Bourgeois with text, watercolor and hand coloring are very desirable. "Feminist Feminine", Nohra Haime Gallery in Manhattan from Jan 25th – Mar 25th, 2016 This work is elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality white wood frame under UV plexiglass. Measurements: Framed 12 inches vertical by 16 inches horizontal by 2 inches Artwork: 7 inches (vertical) x 11.1 inches (horizontal) LOUISE BOURGEOIS BIOGRAPHY b. 1911, Paris; d. 2010, New York Louise Bourgeois was born on December 25, 1911, in Paris. As a teenager, Bourgeois assisted her parents in their tapestry-restoration business, making drawings that indicated to the weavers the repairs to be made. In 1932 she entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics but abandoned that discipline for art. In the mid- to late 1930s, she studied at the École des beaux-arts, Académie de la grande chaumière, École du Louvre, Atelier Fernand Léger, and other Parisian schools. Bourgeois married the American art historian Robert Goldwater in 1938 and moved to New York. There, she studied for two years at the Art Students League and soon participated in print exhibitions. After moving to a new apartment in 1941, Bourgeois began to make large wood sculptures on the roof of her building. In 1945 her first solo show, consisting of 12 paintings, was held at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, and her work was first included in the Whitney Annual (later the Whitney Biennial). In the mid- to late 1940s, she worked at Stanley William Hayter's printshop, Atelier 17, where she met Le Corbusier, Joan Miró, and other Europeans exiled by World War II. In 1949 she exhibited works from her series of Personnages (1945–55) in the first solo show of her sculpture at Peridot Gallery, New York. Bourgeois became an American citizen in 1951. Continuing her mode of abstracted figuration instilled with psychological and symbolic content, she remained stylistically distinct from New York school developments. She did, however, join American Abstract Artists in 1954. In the 1960s, she taught in public schools and at Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. She continued to teach at colleges and universities during the following decade. In the late 1960s, Bourgeois's imagery became more explicitly sexual as she explored the relationship between men and women and the emotional impact of her troubled childhood (her father had had a ten-year affair with her governess). From 1967 until 1972, she made trips to Pietrasanta, Italy, to work in marble. With the rise of feminism and the art world's new pluralism, her work found a wider audience. In the 1970s, she began to do performance pieces—among them A Banquet/A Fashion Show of Body Parts (1978), in which she wrapped art historians and students in white drapery with sewn-in anatomical forms—and expanded the scale of her three-dimensional work to large environments. Her first retrospective was organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1982–83), and her first European retrospective was assembled by the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (1989–91). Bourgeois was selected to be the American representative to the 1993 Venice Biennale. Her collected writings were published in 1998. In 2000, I Do, I Undo, and I Redo—three 30-foot-high towers commissioned by the Tate Modern in London—were featured in the museum's inaugural exhibition. Many of her large-scale works have been exhibited as public art, including three spider sculptures installed at Rockefeller Center in New York in 2001 under the aegis of the Public Art Fund. Major museum retrospectives have since been organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2001–02); State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (2001–03); and Tate Modern, London (2007–08)—an exhibition that traveled to the Guggenheim Museum (2008). Bourgeois's achievements have been recognized with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973), membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1981), a grand prize in sculpture from the French Ministry of Culture (1991), the National Medal of Arts (1997), the Leone d'Oro (1999), a Medal of Honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (2005), the 2006 Intrepid Award from the National Organization for Women (2006), and the Woman Award from the United Nations and Women Together (2007), among others. Bourgeois died on May 31, 2010, in New York.
  • Creator:
    Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010, American, French)
  • Creation Year:
    2000
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Width: 11.1 in (28.2 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Unframed and in fine condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745217152282

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