Spider (Bourgeois)
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Not to be confused with Louise Bourgeois' similar sculpture, Maman (sculpture).
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois.[1] It was executed in 1996 as an edition of a series entitled Cells[2] and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel.[3] The spider itself is made of bronze, whereas the cage is made of steel.[2]
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Artist | Louise Bourgeois |
Year | 1996 (1996) |
Medium | Bronze |
Subject | Spider |
Dimensions | 440 cm × 670 cm × 520 cm (175 in × 262 in × 204 in) |
Location | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow |
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Spider has held the record for most expensive sculptures by a woman three times in a row, and was sold for $32.1 million[4] in 2019.