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Selected Works4018

Museum Acquisitions

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Previous Sales 134

Bonhams
Black Arcs/Untitled (Black) 19 3/4 x 59 1/4 in (50.2 x 150.5 cm) (Executed in 2005. This unique variant is number five from an edition of nine)
Black Arcs/Untitled (Black) 19 3/4 x 59 1/4 in (50.2 x 150.5 cm) (Executed in 2005. This unique variant is number five from an edition of nine)
$90,000
Nov 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1950
£1,514,000 ($2.0M USD)
Oct 2025
Christie's
Molotov Cocktail
Molotov Cocktail, 1968
Bought In
Sep 2025
Christie's
Happiness
Happiness, 2009
£113,400 ($150k USD)
Mar 2025
Christie's
Pillar
Pillar, 1947
£1,613,000 ($2.1M USD)
Mar 2025
Sotheby's
Are you in Orbit?
Are you in Orbit?, 2008
$920,750
Feb 2025
Christie's
Les Fleurs
Les Fleurs, 2009
$2,591,000
Nov 2024
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1947
$1,502,000
Nov 2024
Christie's
Couple
Couple, 2009
£113,400 ($150k USD)
Oct 2024
Christie's
The Family
The Family, 2007
£27,720 ($37k USD)
Oct 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled (Fingers)
Untitled (Fingers), 1986
$254,000
Mar 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1941
$60,000
Feb 2024
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1986
€40,000 ($56k USD)
Feb 2024
Sotheby's
Spider
Spider, 1994
$203,200
Nov 2023
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1949
$158,750
Nov 2023
Sotheby's
Nature Study
Nature Study, 1984
$381,000
Nov 2023
Sotheby's
Landscape
Landscape, 2004
£53,896 ($54k USD)
Oct 2023
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1947
$69,300
Sep 2023
Sotheby's
Spider
Spider
$32,804,500
May 2023
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 1954
$1,134,000
May 2023
Christie's
Needle Woman
Needle Woman, 1947
£1,242,000 ($1.6M USD)
Feb 2023
Sotheby's
Observer
Observer, 1947
$3,075,000
Nov 2022
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 2001
Bought In
Dec 2021
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 1992
$22,000
Jul 2021
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 2002
€24,000 ($33k USD)
Jul 2021
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$14.0K – $33M
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$2.1M
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$707K
55 priced sculpture/objects lots
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Apr 2026 · $195K
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Sculpture/objects: $707K medianWorks on paper: $54.7K medianPaintings: $36.6K medianEditioned prints: $5.5K medianUnclassified lots: $15.7K medianBooks/portfolios: $8.1K medianEditioned objects: $4.0K medianPosters/ephemera: $2.0K median
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Prizes & Awards2

Wolf Prize in Arts
Winner 2003
Praemium Imperiale
Winner 1999
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Education4

Académie de la Grande Chaumière
École du Louvre
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA)
Paris, France
Sorbonne
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Publications50

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Monograph 16

Louise Bourgeois
Yale University Press · 2022
Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
Thames & Hudson · 2016
Louise Bourgeois Author
Hatje Cantz · 2015
Mumbling Beauty: Louise Bourgeois
Thames & Hudson · 2015
Louise Bourgeois
Hatje Cantz · 2012
Louise Bourgeois : the Return of the Repressed Author
Thames & Hudson · 2012
Louise Bourgeois
Prestel · 2011
Louise Bourgeois
Hatje Cantz · 2011
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Abrams · 2010
Fantastic Reality Louise Bourgeois And A Story Of Modern Art
MIT Press · 2008
Louise Bourgeois
Prestel · 2008
Fantastic reality
MIT Press · 2005
Louise Bourgeois
Phaidon Press · 2003
Prints of Louise Bourgeous
MoMA Publications · 1995
Prints of Louis Bergeois
MoMA Publications · 1991
Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
Phaidon Press

Exhibition Catalog 19

Edvard Munch: Der Schrei Das Motiv in Kunst und Popkultur
Hatje Cantz · 2025
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
Thames & Hudson · 2024
Fondation Beyeler. 25 Highlights
Hatje Cantz · 2022
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
Hatje Cantz · 2022
Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter
Yale University Press · 2021
Louise Bourgeois Author
Skira · 2019
Louise Bourgeois : Structures of Existence
Prestel · 2017
Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016
Hatje Cantz · 2016
Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back
Hatje Cantz · 2015
Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells
Prestel · 2015
Kunst & Textil: Stoff als Idee und Material in der Moderne von Klimt bis heute
Hatje Cantz · 2013
Louise Bourgeois Author
Rizzoli · 2010
Louise Bourgeois Author
MoMA Publications · 2008
Louise Bourgeois: Emotions Abstracted. Werke 1941-2000
Hatje Cantz · 2004
No art=no city! Author
Hatje Cantz · 2004
EXPRESSIV!
Hatje Cantz · 2003
Von Rodin bis Baselitz: Der Torso in der Skulptur der Moderne
Hatje Cantz · 2001
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century
Hatje Cantz · 1999
Louise Bourgeois
MoMA Publications · 1982

Group Catalog 5

Fondation Beyeler. Die Sammlung
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Fondation Beyeler. La Collection
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Fondation Beyeler. 25 Highlights
Hatje Cantz · 2024
Es könnte gelingen, wenn nur die Sonne weiter scheint ... Fondation Beyeler. Die Sammlung
Hatje Cantz · 2017
Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection
Phaidon Press

Survey 9

Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists
Thames & Hudson · 2024
Icons: 100 Extraordinary Objects from Sotheby’s History
Phaidon Press · 2024
Where Art Meets Nature: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Phaidon Press · 2024
Encounters with Artists
Thames & Hudson · 2023
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
Thames & Hudson · 2023
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
Thames & Hudson · 2020
A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works
Thames & Hudson · 2018
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists
Thames & Hudson · 2018
Great Women Artists (Compact Format)
Phaidon Press

Artist Book 1

Wonderwater (Alice Offshore) Author
Steidl · 2004
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Current Exhibitions0

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Past Exhibitions24

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#3 Hauser & Wirth

Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool

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542 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011, United States

Nov 6, 2025 — Feb 4, 2026

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#79 Kukje Gallery

Rocking to Infinity

Louise Bourgeois

Sep 2, 2025 — Oct 26, 2025

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Art Gallery of NSW

Louise Bourgeois Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?

Louise Bourgeois

Jan 1, 2024

Art Gallery of NSW North Building Louise Bourgeois Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? Until 28 April 2024 Charges apply

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Art Gallery of NSW

Louise Bourgeois Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?

Louise Bourgeois

Nov 25, 2023 — Feb 23, 2024

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#219 Marlborough New York

Louise Bourgeois: What Is the Shape of This Problem?

Louise Bourgeois

29 Western Ave, Marlboro, NY 12542, USA

Jan 24, 2023 — Mar 11, 2023

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Art Gallery of NSW

From Here, for Now

Rosemary Laing, Charlene Carrington, Robert Macpherson, Richard Prince, Kaylene Whiskey, Ghada Amer, Tracey Emin, Sally M Nangala Mulda, Jenny Watson, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Antony Gormley

Jan 1, 2023

Art Gallery of NSW South Building From Here, for Now Art Gallery of NSW collection Until 12 February 2023 Free

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From Here, for Now

Rosemary Laing, Charlene Carrington, Robert Macpherson, Richard Prince, Kaylene Whiskey, Ghada Amer, Tracey Emin, Sally M Nangala Mulda, Jenny Watson, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Antony Gormley

Nov 5, 2022 — Feb 3, 2023

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Goya Contemporary LLC

Louise Bourgeois Anatomy

Louise Bourgeois

Nov 14, 2019 — Dec 31, 2019

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#499 Cheim & Read

Louise Bourgeois Spiral

Louise Bourgeois

529 W 20th St 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA

Nov 8, 2018 — Dec 22, 2018

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#499 Cheim & Read

Louise Bourgeois Holograms

Louise Bourgeois

529 W 20th St 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA

Jan 5, 2017 — Feb 11, 2017

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#499 Cheim & Read

Louise Bourgeois: Suspension

Louise Bourgeois

529 W 20th St 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA

Oct 30, 2014 — Jan 10, 2015

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Peter Blum Gallery

Louise Bourgeois Works on Paper from the 1940's and 1950's

Louise Bourgeois

176 Grand St Floor 2, New York, NY 10013, USA

Sep 5, 2006 — Nov 11, 2006

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Goya Contemporary LLC

Prints & Unique Works on Paper

Louise Bourgeois

Feb 4, 2006 — Apr 14, 2006

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Peter Blum Gallery

Louise Bourgeois Ode à L’Oubli

Louise Bourgeois

176 Grand St Floor 2, New York, NY 10013, USA

Sep 30, 2004 — Nov 13, 2004

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Kunstmuseum Luzern

Another World Zwölf Bettgeschichten

Louise Bourgeois, Eric Fischl, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Ferdinand Hodler, Rebecca Horn, Ilona Németh, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, David Reed, Pipilotti Rist, Chiharu Shiota

Jan 1, 2002

15.06.29.09.2002 Another World Zwölf Bettgeschichten

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#242 Mnuchin Gallery

Louise Bourgeois: The Personages

Louise Bourgeois

45 E 78th St, New York, NY 10075, USA

Apr 12, 2001 — Jun 9, 2001

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#172 Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Drawings 1947 - 1997

Louise Bourgeois

Nov 12, 1997 — Dec 31, 1997

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Mori Art Museum

Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.

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Japan, 〒106-6150 Tokyo, Minato City, Roppongi, 6-chōme−10−１ Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 53階

Jan 1, 1997

Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful. First Major Solo Show in Japan since 1997 by the Artist of Roppongi Hi...

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Peter Blum Gallery

Louise Bourgeois The Red Rooms

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176 Grand St Floor 2, New York, NY 10013, USA

Sep 5, 1994 — Dec 4, 1994

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#172 Rhona Hoffman Gallery

Louise Bourgeois Selected Works, 1946 - 1989

Louise Bourgeois

Sep 8, 1989 — Oct 10, 1989

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#1,454 Mazarine Variations

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

26, rue Mazarine

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Dia Art Foundation

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

94 Rue Saint-Lazare, 75009 Paris, France

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#4,319 Dia: Beacon

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

3 Beekman St, Beacon, NY 12508, USA

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#5,104 Dan Flavin Institute

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Art Fair Appearances35

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Art Basel Hong Kong — Hong Kong
2026
TEFAF New York — New York
2026
ARCOmadrid — Madrid
2025
Art Basel — Basel
2025
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2025
Frieze New York — New York
2025
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2024
TEFAF New York — New York
2024
The Armory Show — New York
2024
Art Basel — Basel
2023
artgenève — Geneva
2023
Frieze New York — New York
2023
artgenève — Geneva
2022
artmonte-carlo — Monaco
2022
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2022
The Armory Show — New York
2022
Art Basel — Basel
2021
The Armory Show — New York
2021
The Armory Show — New York
2020
Art Basel — Basel
2019
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2019
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2019
The Armory Show — New York
2019
Art Basel — Basel
2018
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2018
The Armory Show — New York
2018
Art Basel — Basel
2017
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2017
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2017
Art Basel — Basel
2016
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2016
EXPO CHICAGO — Chicago
2016
Art Basel — Basel
2015
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2015
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2014
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