Louise Bourgeois’s Nature Study Sells at Christie’s

Last night in NYC, Christie's had its best sale numbers ($301.6 million) for post-war and contemporary art since 2008 ($331 million).   Art Info breaks down the works, the buyers, and the prices, and pronounces that the art market did "cartwheels."

There were no actual dogs, but I am fascinated by this Louise Bourgeois sculpture with a canine crouch entitled Nature Study.   It was estimated at $1.5 million – $2 million and sold for $2,210,500. 

The artist made the piece when she was 73, during one of her most accomplished periods of her life.  She described it as "a portrait of herself and her relationship with motherhood." Of her artwork she said, "It is not an image I am seeking.  It's not an idea.  It's an emotion you want to recreate, an emotion of wanting, of giving, and of destroying."

Read more about the artist and this piece in Christie's lot notes.

Thanks, Kate Pawlicki, for sharing the Art Info link.

Also, you might like to read about a recent study that found through brain scans that viewing art is like being in love.  I wonder what a scan of someone viewing dog art would reveal?