Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010
Louise Bourgeois was a renowned 20th Century feminist and installation artist. Born in Paris in 1911, she studied math at the University of Paris and fine art at several French academies. Shortly after opening her business as an art dealer she met, and later married, American art historian Robert Goldwater in 1938. After moving to New York, she enrolled at the Art Students League and began her career in painting and printmaking.
Drawing from traumatic themes in childhood, the content of Bourgeois’ work explores the human body, anger, beauty, and desire. Utilizing these themes to reconstruct memories, she developed a personal visual language including spiders, sewn appendages, biomorphic forms, and cages to represent internal conflicts. Her first solo exhibition of paintings were presented in New York in 1945, and she moved into sculptural work through the latter half of the decade. In the 1950s and 1960s she traveled to France and Italy, experimenting in new materials such as latex and marble while undergoing intensive psychoanalysis.
Auction Results Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
House Struck by a Lightning Bolt
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $25,000
Louise Bourgeois
Crochet I
estimate: $7,000–9,000
result: $15,000
Louise Bourgeois
Pregnant Caryatid
estimate: $5,000–7,000
result: $6,875
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois Monographs
estimate: $400–500
result: $1,140
Louise Bourgeois
Untitled (Paris Review)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $920
Louise Bourgeois
Untitled (Paris Review)
estimate: $900–1,200
result: $748
Louise Bourgeois
Untitled
estimate: $500–700
result: $690
Louise Bourgeois
plate from Anatomy
estimate: $600–800
result: $633