Sale 14359
New York
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24 - 25 October 2017
Price realised
USD 225,000
Estimate
LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) Ode à l'Oubli the complete hand-made cloth book with 35 compositions, 30 with fabric collage and five lithographs on fabric, 2004, with the artist's name and numbering on a cloth label affixed to the inside book cover, copy 23 of 25 (there were also seven artist's proof examples), published by Peter Blum Edition, New York, in very good condition, bound with tie and button-hole fastenings (the pages can be unbound) Overall: 11 ½ x 13 ¼ x 3 in. (292 x 337 x 76 mm.)
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Literature
Wye 61b-95b
Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Collection of Melva Bucksbaum
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