Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), Spider II

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Spider II
signed with the artist's initials and stamped with the edition number 'LB 5/6' (on underside)
bronze
73 x 73 x 22 1/2 in. (185.4 x 185.4 x 57.2 cm.)
Executed in 1995. This work is number five from an edition of six plus one artist's proof.

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Provenance
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Private collection, Europe, 1999
Galerie Hopkins, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Pre-Lot Text
Property of an Important European Collector

Literature
G. McNatt, “The Artist and her Id,” Baltimore Sun, 08 February 2006, p. 1C (another example illustrated).
K. Johnson, "'Louise Bourgeois: Femme' at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore," New York Times, 05 May 2006, p. E32.
R. Storr, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois, New York, 2016, pp. 664-665 (another example illustrated in color).

Exhibited
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Premio Marco 1995, January-September 1996 (steel version exhibited).
Washington D.C., Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Louise Bourgeois: Spiders, May-July 1996 (another example exhibited).
New York, Greene Naftali Gallery, Women’s Work, September-October 1996 (another example exhibited).
Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, Louise Bourgeois: Ode a Ma Mere, April-June 1997 (another example exhibited).
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Wexner Prize Wall, April-May 1999 (another example exhibited).
Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois: Sleepwalking, November 2001-August 2002 (another example exhibited).
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Femme, February-May 2006 (another example exhibited).
Palm Springs Art Museum, Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, September 2009-ongoing (another example exhibited).
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Le Rêve, September 2016-January 2017 (another example exhibited).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, September 2017-January 2018 (another example exhibited).