Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911)

Trani Episode

Details

Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911)
Trani Episode
signed with initials, inscribed and dated 'APM L.B. 1971'
two elements--plaster
H: 7½ in. (19 cm.) W: 10½ in. (26.6 cm.) D: 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.)
This piece was realized in six different media, one in plaster and latex, two in plaster, one in marble, four in alabaster, one in granite, and six in bronze with one artist's proof. Then there are also two smaller versions of this work realized in plaster, one of which is the present example.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist
Private collection, Paris

Lot Essay

"I am not particularly aware, or interested in, the erotic in my work...Since I am exclusively concerned, at least consciously, with formal perfection, I allow myself to follow blindly the images that suggest themselves to me. There has always been sexual suggestiveness in my work. Sometimes I am totally concerned with female shapes-clusters of breasts like clouds-but often I merge the imagery-phallic breasts, male and female, active and passive."
(D. Wye, Louise Bourgeois, New York 1982, pp. 26-27)

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