Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

Echo IV

Details

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Echo IV
stamped with initials and numbered 'L.B 4/6' (on the side of the base)
bronze painted white and steel
36 x 12 x 12 in. (91.4 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 2007. This work is number four from an edition of six plus one artist's proof.

Provenance

Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, Louise Bourgeois: New Work, October-November 2007 (another example exhibited).
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2008, June-August 2008, p. 148 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Cheim & Read, Louise Bourgeois: Echo, September-November 2008 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the cover and in the catalogue).
Soeul, Kukje Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Les Fleurs, February-March 2010, pp. 58-59 (illustrated).
San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim, Louise Bourgeois, March-June 2010 (another example illustrated in announcement).
Sydney, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, March-August 2010, March-August 2010, p. 142 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Athens, The Museum of Cycladic Art, Louise Bourgeois, March-September 2010 (another example exhibited).
Ottawa, National Gallery of Ottawa; Edmonton, Art Gallery of Alberta and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, April 2011-April 2013 (another example exhibited).

Lot Essay

Louise Bourgeois' ECHO of 2007 was cast from a unique sculpture made of the artist's clothes which were draped, stretched and sewn into position, sprayed with a stiffening material to keep them in place so that a mold could then be made for the bronze casting; no plaster was used as is the norm with bronze casting. ECHO is reminiscent of Bourgeois' early personages from the late 1940s and 1950s in their totem like presence. Bourgeois saw the softness, folds and femininity of the ECHO bronzes as relating to maternal feelings of nurturing, protection and warmth.

Echo IV

Lot Essay

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