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Louise Bourgeois, The Architecture of Memory: Works from a Private Collection

LOUISE BOURGEOIS | GERMINAL

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Louise Bourgeois, The Architecture of Memory: Works from a Private Collection

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

1911 - 2010

GERMINAL


stamped with the artist's initials, dated 99 and numbered 5/6

bronze

14.3 by 18.7 by 15.9 cm. 5⅝ by 7⅜ by 6¼ in.

Conceived in 1967 and cast in 1999, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6, plus 1 artist's proof.


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Cheim & Read, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Partial Figure in Modern Sculpture, December 1969 - February 1970, p. 73, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Art Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; and Akron, Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois, November 1982 - January 1984, p. 72, no. 87, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Paris, Maeght-Lelong; and Zurich, Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospektive 1947-1984, February - May 1985, n.p., (text) (another example exhibited)

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Louise Bourgeois, December 1989 - January 1990, pp. 106-07, no. 52, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May - June 1990 (another example exhibited)

Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’Art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Bern, Kunstmuseum; and Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, February 1989 - July 1991, p. 109, no. 52, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, Galerie Ramis Barquet, Louise Bourgeois, October - November 1993, n.p., illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, October - November 1994 (another example exhibited)

Monterrey, MARCO; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo; and Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, June 1995 - August 1996, p. 65, no. 39, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, November 1997 - January 1998, p. 72, no. 39, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Oakland, Mills College Art Museum; Boise, Boise Museum of Art; Richmond, Marsh Art Gallery; Durham, University of New Hampshire; El Paso, El Paso Museum of Art; Lexington, University of Kentucky Art Museum; New Orleans, Newcomb Gallery; and Denver, Center for the Visual Arts, True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, September 2001 - April 2004 (another example exhibited)

New York, Dia Center for the Arts, Inauguration of Dia: Beacon, Louise Bourgeois Installation, on loan since May 2013 (another example exhibited)

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Abstractions, June - July 2003, n.p., (text) (another example exhibited)

Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Visceral Sensation - Voices So Far, So Near, April - September 2013, p. 90, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman, November 2013 - February 2014, n.p., no. 12, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

London, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, Traumata: Bourgeois/Kusama, February - April 2017, p. 86, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, September 2017 - January 2018, p. 154, no. 154, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)

Catherine Flohic & Daniel Dobbels, Louise Bourgeois, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, p. 30, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Robert Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, London 2016, p. 311, illustrated in colour (another example illustrated)