Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois
Ode a La Bievre, 2007
10342-BK

16 7/8 x 12 15/16 in. (43 x 33 cm)

Ode á la Bièvre was made by Louise Bourgeois in 2002 as an embroidered book from fragments of cloth. In the book, she reminisces, through images and text, about the impact the river had on her.



Her family moved next to the Bièvre in the suburbs of Paris when she was 8 years old (1919). Years later, Bourgeois was to go back to that house with her own family only to find the river to no longer exist, "only the trees that my father had planted along its edge remained as a witness."



Printed book of 52 pages, bound in white Japanese linen and presented in a cardboard slipcase. Edition of 1,800 copies

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Louise Bourgeois
ODE A LA BIEVRE, 2007
1669

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. In 1919, her family moved to the Parisian suburb of Antony where the Bièvre River "cut across the garden in a straight line". The river was key to their relocation as it was imperative to the family's business of tapestry restoration for the washing of the tapestries. In 2002, Bourgeois would distill her emotions and memories of the river and the garden in an important unique fabric book entitled ODE À LA BIÈVRE. In the book she reminisces through images and text, "With the soil from that river we planted geraniums, masses of peonies, and beds of asparagus ...and honeysuckle that smelled so sweet in the rain." Using her own garments as raw material to make sewn fabric collages, she evoked feelings and memories through lines, shapes and colors. Years later, Bourgeois was to go back to the house with her own family only to find the river to no longer exist, "only the trees that my father had planted along its edge remained as a witness". This 2007 book faithfully reproduces that original fabric work. Each book is signed and numbered on the colophon and includes two signed photographs digitally printed on Verona paper and mounted on 300 gram watercolor paper with the respective titles: "The garden in Antony, 1921" and "The Bièvre River, 1951." Housed in a blind embossed slip case each book is uniquely bound with hand dyed and distressed linen.

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Louise Bourgeois
Ode a La Bievre, 2007
2137

16 7/8 x 12 15/16 in. (43 x 33 cm)

Third version of the original book in fabric. Housed in a blind embossed cardboard slipcase, with a white Japanese linen embossed cover. Edition of 1800. 54 pages. Published by Matthew Zucker, New York.

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Louise Bourgeois
Ode a La Bievre, 2007
7491-BK

16 7/8 x 12 15/16 in. (43 x 33 cm)

This 2007 book faithfully reproduces the original fabric work of the same year. Each is signed and numbered on the colophon and includes two signed photographs digitally printed on Verona paper and mounted on 300 gram watercolor paper with the respective titles: The garden in Antony, 1921 and The Bièvre River, 1951. Housed in a blind embossed slipcase, each book is uniquely bound with hand dyed and distressed linen. Edition of 95 and 25 artist’s proofs. 54 pages. Published by Matthew Zucker, New York.

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Louise Bourgeois
Album, 1997
1563

8 3/8 x 12 in. (21.5 x 30.5 cm)

123 pages, offset, cloth with brass binding screws.

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Louise Bourgeois
Ode a ma mere, deluxe issue, 1995
4073-BK

Complete book with text and a suite of the 9 etchings of spiders with all the etchings signed by the artist.

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