Spider (Bourgeois)
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. It was executed in 1996 as an edition of a series entitled Cells and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel. The spider itself is made of bronze, whereas the cage is made of steel.
| Spider | |
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Spider at Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013 | |
| Artist | Louise Bourgeois |
| Year | 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 |
Spider has held the record for most expensive sculptures by a woman three times in a row, and was sold for $32.1 million in 2019.
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