An old hand at such juxtapositions, Hauser and Wirth offers an intensely curated pitch for older and dead women artists — a 1960 Eva Hesse painting, a Louise
Bourgeois fabric piece, the tormented canvas «Mourning» by Maria Lassnig (aged 92) and a fresco - like work about the ages of women «after Giotto» by Ida Applebroog (aged 82).
Not exact matches
Evocative of Louise
Bourgeois's distinctively melancholic works, Schwartz's three - dimensional wall
pieces made of upholstery
fabric, jewelry, feathers, charms, and other every - day materials re-appropriate decorative motifs and transfigure objects into the unfamiliar, their readability and intentions rendered opaque.
Other highlights include a Louise
Bourgeois lithograph on
fabric depicting the artist's hand, red on tableture, Nancy Spero's text
piece «Air... Portfolio» (1975) and Jonas Mekas» «I am America» playing in the back where monographs on many of the artists give ample opportunity to catch up on lesser known artists, some of whom were at one time staples.
Cheim & Read: Louise
Bourgeois» Eye, 2001, for just under $ 2m to a European and two of her
fabric pieces for $ 300,000 and $ 200,000
The exhibition will showcase the wide variety of materials that
Bourgeois used throughout her career, including carved wooden vertical forms in the late 1940s, amorphous and labyrinthine poured forms in latex and plaster in the 1960s, carved marble
pieces in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cell installations of the 1990 - 2000s, and
fabric and red gouache works late in her career.