Germann Auctionhouse Zurich
Martin Kunz Art Collection
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 04:00 pm

Louise Bourgeois, The Maternal Man

Lot 1115

Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010 (FR)

The Maternal Man, 2008

Archival Dyes on Fabric, Digital print.
H 1219 mm W 825 mm.

Signed with the monogram lower right: LB.
Verso signed and numbered: Louise Bourgeois, 7/12.
12 samples plus 3 A.P.s
With the work number on verso: BOUR-12042.
Publisher: Carolina Nitsch Editions, New York.
Printer: Dyenamix, New York. (Frame).

CHF40'000 / 80'000
EUR42'400 / 84'800
USD46'400 / 92'800

Provenance:
Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York;
Collection Martin Kunz, acquired in the above gallery in 2008.

Literature:
Online Catalogue Prints & Illustrated Books, MoMA: Cat. No. 228.2.

Annotation:

The work offered here is the 2nd version of the work ‘The Maternal Man’, which was created in 3 designs. Further copies of this version can be found at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, or at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others.