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LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
The Song of the Blacks and the Blues
lithograph and woodcut in colors with hand-coloring in gouache and oilstick, on Rives BFK paper, 1996, signed in pencil, numbered 'PP II' (one of four printer's proofs, the edition was 40 plus seventeen artist's proofs), printed at SOLO Impression, New York, co-published by SOLO Impression and Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, the full sheet, in very good condition
Sheet: 9578 x 2112 in. (2435 x 546 mm.)
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Wye 649
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Lot Essay

"She was my neighbour in Chelsea. I’d see her walking with her cart to the hardware store, and I knew she was an artist. One day I invited her over for lunch and she brought a nice bottle of wine. I also invited Joyce Kozloff, and we got to know each other as women in the neighbourhood who were in the arts. I suggested Louise work on a stone, so I hauled the stone over to her studio, and it ended up in the basement. She scratched the hell out of it because she's a sculptor, and it was kind of unprintable. Then I became associated with a printer in the neighbourhood, and that's how The Song of the Blacks and the Blues (1996) came about. She had this huge sketch, and she wanted to do a big woodcut." -Judith Solodkin, on meeting Louise Bourgeois for the first time

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