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Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 1985.
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Exhibited: New York, Sculpture Now, Inc., Group Show, 1974.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Bourgeois Retrospective, 1982-1983, pl. 115, p. 121 (illustrated, p. 83, and within the artist's studio, inside front cover and p. 124). This exhibition later travelled to Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Akron, Akron Art Museum.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, 20th Century Sculpture, 2003, no. 34 (illustrated in colour, unpaged; incorrectly titled Cumul II).
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Literature: K. Larson, 'Women By A Woman...Louise Bourgeois Is Finally Where She Belongs: Among the Top American Sculptors, and at the Apex of Feminist Art...' in New York Magazine, 22 November 1982, p. 176 (illustrated in colour, p. 74).
Louise Bourgeois: Skulpturen und Installationen, exh. cat., Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1994 (illustrated in colour, p. 62).
Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, exh. cat., Milan, Fondazione Prada, 1997 (illustrated, pp. 161-163).
R. Crone and P. G. Schaesberg, Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells, Munich 1997 (illustrated in colour, p. 82).
M. Unterdörfer, Louise Bourgeois, Works in Marble, exh. cat., Zurich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 2002 (illustrated within the artist's studio, p. 13).
J. Caux, Tissée, Tendue au Fils des Jours, La Toile de Louise Bourgeois, Paris 2003 (illustrated in colour, p. 158).
Louise Bourgeois, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2007, fig. 251 (illustrated, p. 270).
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Notes: Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Cumul III Avenza
incised with the artist's signature and dated 'LOUISE BOURGEOIS 1969' (on the reverse)
marble
23½ x 42 x 40in. (59.6 x 106.6 x 101.6cm.)
Executed in 1969
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