Year 1996 | Type Sculpture Created 1996 | |
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Dimensions 2.82 m × 8.33 m × 7.9 m (9 ft 3 in × 27 ft 4 in × 26 ft) Similar Louise Bourgeois artwork, Artwork at National Gallery of Art, Other artwork | ||
Three artists on a spider by louise bourgeois
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. Executed in 1996 as an edition of six and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel.
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- Three artists on a spider by louise bourgeois
- Louise bourgeois s spider sculpture maman in ottawa
- Exhibitions
- Art market
- References
An example was acquired by the Denver Art Museum for its new addition in 2006. Other locations in permanent collections include the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
Louise bourgeois s spider sculpture maman in ottawa
Exhibitions
The steel Spider was exhibited at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal from April to September, 1996. Various editions of this artwork have traveled extensively, including an example shown at the Hermitage Museum in 2001.
Art market
In 2006, Bourgeois became the highest-paid living woman artist after a Spider sold for $4 million at Christie's in London; which was surpassed in 2008, when another Spider sold for $4.5 million. A new record price for the artist was achieved when Spider number two acquired from Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, was auctioned by a private collector with an estimate of $4 million to $6 million. The price realized at Christie's on 8 November 2011 was $10,722,500. This is the highest price paid for an artwork by a woman artist at the time. This was surpassed in 2015 by a Spider auctioned by Christie's for $28.2 million.