Lot Essay
"All my work is suggestive; it is not explicit. Explicit things are not interesting because they are too cut and dried and without mystery" — Louise Bourgeois
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Contemporary Drawings Collected by Martina Yamin
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Tadpole
Details
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Tadpole
signed and embossed with the artist's initials 'LB' (lower right) ; titled 'tad pole' (on the interior of the folded sheet); inscribed 'thedoghouse' (on the reverse)
gouache and watercolor on folded paper
5 ¼ x 12 1/8 in. (13.3 x 30.8 cm.)
Executed in 1997.
Tadpole
signed and embossed with the artist's initials 'LB' (lower right) ; titled 'tad pole' (on the interior of the folded sheet); inscribed 'thedoghouse' (on the reverse)
gouache and watercolor on folded paper
5 ¼ x 12 1/8 in. (13.3 x 30.8 cm.)
Executed in 1997.
Provenance
Cheim & Read, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College, Davis Museum, "Don't Look," Contemporary Drawings from Martina Yamin's Collection, September-December 2007, September-December 2007, pp. 28 and 29, no. 5 (illustrated).
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