Louise Bourgeois

French | 1911 - 2010

Louise Bourgeois was a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1911. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art have featured Louise Bourgeois's work in the past.Louise Bourgeois's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 104 USD to 32,804,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 32,804,500 USD for Spider, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2023. In the past 12 months, her sculptures have averaged 288,151 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 286,954 USD.Louise Bourgeois has been featured in articles for Art Basel Stories, Flash Art (International Edition) and Made In Bed. The most recent article is Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide written for Hyperallergic in February 2025. The artist died in 2010.

Featured for Sale

Horseshoe ,2003

By Louise Bourgeois

Christie's New York

Untitled, no. 10 of 12, from Anatomy ,1989

By Louise Bourgeois

Christie's New York

9Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)Metamorfosis (MoMA 494B)Etching ,1999

By Louise Bourgeois

Forum Auctions London

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Spider V ,1999

By Louise Bourgeois

+11%

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SPIDER III

By Louise Bourgeois

+44%

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SPIDER I ,1995

By Louise Bourgeois

+18%

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Upcoming Lots

Happiness ,2009

By Louise Bourgeois

Christie's London

Pillar

By Louise Bourgeois

Christie's London

Rameau d'olivier, 2005 - Louise Bourgeois

Rameau d'olivier, 2005 ,2005

By Louise Bourgeois

Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris

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Post-Auction Lots for Sale

9Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)Metamorfosis (MoMA 494B)Etching - Louise Bourgeois

9Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)Metamorfosis (MoMA 494B)Etching ,1999

By Louise Bourgeois

Forum Auctions London

Recent Auction Results

The Guilty Girl is Fragile (from the Twoandthreezeros: Exit Art portfolio) - Louise Bourgeois

The Guilty Girl is Fragile (from the Twoandthreezeros: Exit Art portfolio) ,2000

By Louise Bourgeois

-4%

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Rago Arts and Auction Center

The Ladders (MoMA 406/VII - Louise Bourgeois

The Ladders (MoMA 406/VII ,2006

By Louise Bourgeois

+1%

above mid-estimate

Phillips New York

Homely Girl, A Life (MoMA 926-935 - Louise Bourgeois

Homely Girl, A Life (MoMA 926-935 ,1992

By Louise Bourgeois

+45%

above mid-estimate

Phillips New York

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Current Exhibitions

Scientia Sexualis

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Los Angeles | California | USA

Oct 05,2024 - Mar 02,2025

Immortal Apples Eternal Eggs

Hastings Contemporary

Hastings | UK

Sep 21,2024 - Mar 16,2025

The Monster

Pace Los Angeles

Los Angeles | California | USA

Feb 01,2025 - Mar 22,2025

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Articles

Hyperallergic Spring 2025 New York Art Guide

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Coverage

“ ..Although her oeuvre includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and performance, Bourgeois is best known for her sculptures, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and across a diverse... ”
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

“ ..Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) is best-known for her powerful emotionally charged works exploring the unconscious, desire and the body... ”
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Glasgow Print Studio

“ ..Despite the deeply personal references to her own life in her work, as well as to a range of art historical movements, Bourgeois’s unique visual language ultimately reaches beyond both, raising universal... ”
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Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

“ ..Often hailed as the founder of 'confessional art', the familial, biographical stories that provided life-long inspiration for Bourgeois's work are well known: her parents’ tapestry workshop where she learnt... ”
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Heide Museum of Modern Art

“ ..A groundbreaking, award-winning artist, with a career spanning nearly seven decades, Bourgeois left behind a body of work rare in its material diversity and emotional intensity... ”
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Gordon Gallery, Ben Yehuda Street