Needle Woman

Details

LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
Needle Woman
incised with the artist’s initials, number and date ‘L.B. 2/6 1991’ (lower edge)
painted bronze
55 1/4 x 12 1/8 x 12 1/8in. (140.3 x 30.7 x 30.7cm.)
Conceived in 1947-1949 and cast in 1991, this work is number two from an edition of six plus one artist's proof

Provenance

Cheim & Read, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 1986 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, unpaged).
Louise Bourgeois. The Personages, exh. cat., Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1994 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 35; installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979, p. 79).
Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen und Installationen, exh. cat., Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1994 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 177).
Louise Bourgeois. Blue Days and Pink Days, exh. cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, 1997 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979, pp. 158-159).
A. Jahn, Louise Bourgeois: Subversionen Des Körpers, Berlin 1999 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 24).
A. Potts, ‘Louise Bourgeois – Sculptural Confrontations’, in Oxford Art Journal, no. 2, vol. 22, Oxford 1999 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 47).
Louise Bourgeois. Memory and Architecture, exh. cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1999-2000 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 41).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2000 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 11).
J. Greenberg and S. Jordan, Runaway Girl. The Artist Louise Bourgeois, New York 2003 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, pp. 40-41).
F. Morris (ed.), Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time, exh. cat., Dublin, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2003-2004 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 11).
B. E. Stammer (et. al.), Louise Bourgeois. Intimate Abstraction, exh. cat., Berlin, Akedemie der Künste, 2003 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979, p. 76).
Louise Bourgeois: Life as Art, exh. cat., Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2003 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 72).
M. Nixon, Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art, Cambridge 2005 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 120).
F. Morris (ed.), Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2007-2008 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, pp. 33 and 230).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Jena, Städtische Museen Jena, 2010 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 25).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Seoul, Kukje Gallery, 2012 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, pp. 33 and 35).
Louise Bourgeois “HONNI soit QUI mal y pense", exh. cat., Madrid, La Casa Encendida, 2012-2013 (wood version illustrated, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 15).

Exhibited

New York, Peridot Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, 1950 (wood version exhibited).
New York, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures 1941-1953, Plus One New Piece, 1979 (wood version exhibited).
Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Louise Bourgeois: Femme Maison, 1981 (wood version exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, 1982-1983 (wood version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 37; installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 55; installation view at Xavier Fourcade Gallery in 1979, p. 60).
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Louise Bourgeois, 1999-2000 (another from the edition exhibited).
Salzburg, Max Gandolph Bibliothek, Positionen, 2000 (another from the edition exhibited).
Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, 2002-2003 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 77). This exhibition later travelled to Madison, Madison Art Center and Aspen, Aspen Art Museum.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, 2008 (wood version exhibited, installation view at Peridot Gallery in 1950, p. 5).

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