Les Fleurs - Louise Bourgeois Artwork on Skate decks

LOUISE BOURGEOIS - LES FLEURS ART SKATEBOARD EDITION

Limited Edition of 100

Les Fleurs, 2009,
Louise BOURGEOIS

Name: Les Fleurs, 2009
SKU: 2024337
Price: 550 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

At the end of her life, Bourgeois created several series of red gouache drawings depicting family, birth, the mother-child dyad, and flowers. She painted directly onto wet paper, which diffused her lines and created diluted fields of red and pink. Bourgeois liked the element of chance this process provided, as random drips and stains often occurred as she worked. For her, red was symbolic of blood, pain, and the body, but also of the intensity of “the emotions involved.” The five blossoms on this stem reference the five members of her family—both the one she grew up in and the one she shared with her husband.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Les Fleurs - Limited edition of 100
Produced by THE SKATEROOM in 2022
Certificate of Authenticity signed by THE SKATEROOM
© 2022 The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / SABAM

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Set of 3 skateboard decks
Each deck measures approx. 31x8in (80x20cm)

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Made of 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood
Top-print includes the printed signature of Louise Bourgeois
1 EasyFix wall mount included per deck

Each skate deck measures approximately 31X8IN (80X20CM)

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Louise Bourgeois (b. Paris, 1911, d. New York, 2010) is one of the most influential artists of the past century. Using the body as a primary form, she explored the full range of human experience. From intimate drawings to large-scale installations, created from a variety of materials including wood, plaster, marble, and bronze, Bourgeois expressed psychological states through a visual vocabulary of formal and symbolic equivalents. For her, the creative process was a kind of exorcism: a way of reconstructing and diffusing memories and emotions. Themes of love, fear, guilt, abandonment, and reconciliation are at the core of her complex body of work.

Bourgeois was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French minister of culture in 1983. Other honors include the Grand Prix National de Sculpture from the French government in 1991; the National Medal of Arts in 1997; and the French medal of Commander of the Legion of Honor in 2008. She represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1993, and in 1999 was awarded the Biennale’s Golden Lion for a living master of contemporary art. Bourgeois’s work has been the subject of several major traveling retrospectives, including those organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Tate Modern, London; the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

The skateboard art collection was released on 12th April 2022, in tandem with a solo exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Photo (top): Claudio Edinger; Art: © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY.
Photo (left): Adar Yosef, courtesy The Easton Foundation

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Buying guide

CoA is short for certificate of authenticity. CoA’s are either signed by the artist or THE SKATEROOM in order to validate the editions. It is specificied on each product page if a CoA is provided with the edition.

“Printed Signature on the deck” refers to the printed signature of the artist included on the top-print. Most decks feature this printed signature, though some specified editions can also feature a hand signed artist signature.

We make a commitment to the social projects we fund: at least 10% of our revenue goes directly to them. Working with our partners, we help empower at-risk youth, build new skateparks and develop education facilities & resource programs. Since 2014, we have generated over $1,500,000 to support social projects around the world.

In 2019, we became a Certified B Corporation. THE SKATEROOM is also CO2 neutral, chooses to source its skateboard wood from certified sustainable forests, and uses water-based ink for its prints.

These editions of artwork are intended for decorative purposes. While you could definitely skate on them if you wanted to, we provide you with one wall mount per deck to hang them on your wall, just like a painting.

We provide you with everything you need to hang your boards up. With your edition purchase you will receive the EasyFix wall mounts. It’s really easy to set up and you can find all the instructions right here. You can always upgrade to the premium SnapDisplay wall mounts.

Our team is also always ready to help if you have any additional questions.

Direct exposure to sunlight might result in discoloration and damage to your editions. To avoid this, we strongly suggest hanging your art-decks away from direct natural light.

THE SKATEROOM makes art accessible to everyone by delivering WORLDWIDE from our warehouse in Belgium.

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Les Fleurs, 2009,
Louise BOURGEOIS

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Buying guide

Thanks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for making this collaboration possible.

Les Fleurs, 2009,Louise BOURGEOIS

A New Chapter – Skateistan’s global expansion

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Buying guide

Thanks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for making this collaboration possible.

Les Fleurs, 2009,
Louise BOURGEOIS