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LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
Black Flames
stamped with initials, numbered and stamped with foundry mark '3/6 L.B.' (lower edge)
bronze, paint and stainless steel
Height: 69 1/2 in. (176.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1947-1949 and cast in 1989. This work is number three from an edition of six plus an artist's proof.
Provenance
The artist.
Cheim & Read, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1999.
Literature
Louise Bourgeois: Selected Works 1946-1989, exh. cat., Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, 1989 (another cast exhibited).
Louise Bourgeois: Bronze Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, 1990 (another cast exhibited).
Louise Bourgeois: Bronzes of the 1940s and 1950s, exh. cat., Galerie Karsten Greve, 1990 (another cast exhibited).
C. Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois Designing For Free Fall, Zürich, 1992, p. 56 (another cast illustrated).
Louise Bourgeois Personages, 1940s / Installations, 1990s, exh. cat., Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, 1993 (another cast exhibited).
Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, exh. cat., Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, 1994 (another cast illustrated, pl. 8).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Helsinki City Art Museum, 1995, p. 82 (another cast illustrated).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, 1996, p. 48 (another cast exhibited and illustrated, pl. 7).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 1996 (another cast exhibited).
Louise Bourgeois: The Forties and Fifties, November-December 1996 (another cast exhibited).
Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois Homesickness, exh. cat., Gallery Joseloff, Harry Jack Gray Center at University of Hartford, Westford, 1997, p. 53 (another cast exhibited and illustrated, pl. 18).
Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, exh. cat., The White House, Washington, D.C., 1999 (another cast exhibited).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999 (another cast exhibited).
View From Denver, exh. cat., The White House, Washington, D.C., 2000 (another example exhibited).
Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, exh. cat., C&M Arts, New York, 2001 (another cast illustrated, pl. 6).
Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, exh. cat., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, 2002, p. 79 (another cast illustrated).
The Esquire House 2004 Los Angeles, 9 Beverly Ridge Terrace, Beverly Hills, 2004 (another cast exhibited).
20th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, 2009, p. 126 (another cast illustrated in color in situ at the exhibition).
Louise Bourgeois, Structures of Existence: The Cells, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2015 (another cast exhibited).
Exhibited
Denver, Ginny Williams Gallery, Bourgeois: Four Decades, October-December 1990.
Denver, Ginny Williams Family Foundation, Louise Bourgeois October 1993-March 1994.
Aspen Art Museum, National Council Member’s Show, February-April 1994.
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Louise Bourgeois The Locus of Memory, April-September 1996.
Birmingham, Hill Gallery, Six From Storm King, September-October 1998.
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Post Lot Text
The original painted wood version of Black Flames resides in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.