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Inv. n°: CL98

This Need

This object is on display at the FAMM . Come experience it in person.

Triptych. Signed lower right: LB on each panel. Modernism, Feminist Art. Inscription on the left panel: "I cannot help this need in the morning" Inscription on the middle panel: "This need to grow / obsessive minuscules éléments / géométrique circulaire patterns / repeated indéfiniment / expressins the fear not to be" Inscription on the right panel: "It is stronger than hunger or thirst"

Each panel approx. h. 186.4 x w. 259 cm (framed)
2007
Watercolour, ink, gouache, coloured pencil, pencil, fabric and etching on paper

Provenance

  • Louise Bourgeois Foundation, Inv. n° BOURG85045 with Hauser & Wirth (representatives of the estate)
  • Acquired at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, 01/01/2018

Publications

  • J. Samet, "Living in a Female Body: Contemporary Art by Women and the Levett Collection", FAMM - Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France, Merrell Publishers and FAMM, May 1, 2025, pp.222-223

Exhibitions

  • Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles, USA

© The Easton Foundation / Adagp, Paris 2022

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