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Louise BourgeoisI Have Been to Hell and Back Handkerchief (Blue)2009
2009
About the Item
Louise Bourgeois
I Have Been to Hell and Back Handkerchief (Blue), 2009
Embroidery on 100% cotton handkerchief
Signed in plate, hand numbered 319/1000, with the artist's silkscreened initials
Frame included
This long sold out coveted limited edition embroidered handkerchief is based on a larger original, which Bourgeois created in 1996. The formal serif typeface and the horizontal lines that run across this work make it reminiscent of a students' composition. Created on the occasion of Bourgeois' 2007-08 exhibition at the Tate Modern, London, it was offered at the Tate Gift shop and sold out shortly after. Louise Bourgeois' embroidered handkerchief was created in three variations, blue, red and pink - the present work being the blue, which was the very first edition. What makes this work especially collectible is that the design was created and authorized during the artist's lifetime in direct collaboration with hear. It bears Bourgeois' iconic and memorable phrase, "I Have Been to Hell and Back and Let Me Tell You It Was Wonderful." It is elegantly floated and framed in a wood frame. An excellent and desirable collectors item; makes a superb and memorable gift. The work itself has the artist's silkscreened initials, and it is hand numbered from the limited edition of only 1000
Measurements:
Frame:
15.75 x 15.75 x 1.5 inch
Artwork
12.25 x 12.25 inches
Provenance
Tate Gallery gift ship, London, UK
Manufacturer
Third Drawer Down in collaboration with Louise Bourgeois
- Creator:Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010, American, French)
- Creation Year:2009
- Dimensions:Height: 15.75 in (40.01 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40.01 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745214085172
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes throughout her long career, including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood, which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
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