LOUISE BOURGEOIS, ‘The Maternal Man’, 2008
archival dyes printed on cloth
10 1/2 x 8″ (26,6 x 20,3 cm)
LB, stitched lower right, numbered lower left, Ed. 33/XVII
$ 6000.00 / Euro 4000.00 / CHF 6000.00

Parkett has devoted its latest edition to three artists including Louise Bourgeois. Robert Storr assesses her work and her influence in an essay entitled “Mother of Them All/ Sister of Some”, in which he notes: “Any artist born after 1965 will have had the unpredictable ‘new’ Bourgeois as a competitive contemporary… and those born later may well have found themselves running to catch up with the ‘old-new’ Bourgeois, as an even newer, shape-shifting Bourgeois has been regularly putting fresh work into the world.” Tracey Emin recounts a meeting she had with Bourgeois at her house in New York where she came face to face not only with her heroine but a feisty and provocative sense of humour.

On the occasion of this issue of Parkett, Louise Bourgeois has developed into a special limited edition a work from her recent series of red watercolors. “Maternal Man”, the outline of a standing pregnant man with a visible fetus growing inside, is available for $6,000 in an edition of thirty-three.