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Artist or Maker: Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911)

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Description: Memling Dawn
stamped with initials, number and date 'L.B. 5/6 92' (lower edge)
bronze with black patina on steel base
62 1/2 x 18 x 18 in. (158.6 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1951 and cast in 1992. This work is number five from an edition of six plus one artist's proof.

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Provenance: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Published: R. Storr, "Intimate Geographies: The Work and Life of Louise Bourgeois," Art Press 175, International Edition, December 1992, p. 15 (another cast illustrated).
C. Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing For Free Fall, Zurich: 1992, p. 56 (another cast illustrated).
J. Garcia Murillo, Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Galeria Ramis Barquet, Mexico City, 1993 (illustrated; another cast exhibited).
R. Marshall, et. al., Escultura de Louise Bourgeois: La Eleganca de la Ironia, exh. cat., Museo de Art Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), 1996, p. 55 (illustrated; another cast exhibited).
T. Amano, et. al., Louise Bourgeois: Homesickness, exh. cat., Yokohama Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1997, p. 67 (illustrated; another cast exhibited).
R. Crone, et. al., Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells, Munich, 1998, p. 60 (another cast illustrated).
S. Kang, et. al., Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyunggi-Do, 2000, p. 121 (illustrated; another cast exhibited).
E. Schneider, et. al., Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2002, p. 60 (illustrated; another cast exhibited).
R. Storr, et. al., Louise Bourgeois, London, 2003, p. 59 (another cast illustrated).
A. Morawinska, et. al., Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire, exh. cat., Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2003, p. 177 (illustrated; another cast exhibited). B. Stammer, ed., Louise Bourgeois: Intime Abstraction, exh. cat., Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, 2003 (another cast exhibited).

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Notes: Property from a Distinguished European Private Collection

Please note that this work is attached to a steel base and the correct measurements are 62 1/2 x 18 x 18 inches or (158.6 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm.)