LOUISE BOURGEOIS Paris 1911 - New York 2010 Untitled - 1953 Ink on paper - 28,8 x 18,8 cm Signed and dated lower left 1953, Bourgeois Published: Louise Bourgeois Drawings, Robert Miller, New York, 1988 Exhibited: Louise Bourgeois Drawings, Robert Miller, New York, 2 January - 30 January 1988 Provenance: The artist Robert Miller Gallery, NY Daniel Lelong, Paris The journeys of an artist The Berend Hoekstra Collection "For me, primitive means basic, primary, brutal, essential... Essential to life, essential to art, essential to creating. For me, primitive is a compliment." Berend Hoekstra in Conru, "the eye of the Moko", Tribal 3, summer 2003. Berend Hoekstra is a well-known Dutch artist residing in Brussels. Born in Roosendaal in 1958. His paintings and sculpture are extremely powerful. At the age of 12, while visiting the satellite of the Leiden Museum in Breda, he entered in contact for thefi rst time with Oceanic Art. As a young artist in Amsterdam he finally met Loed and Mia van Bussel, who were specialisst in Oceanic art and had an amazing collection. In those early days, he bought from them the incredible New Ireland ancestor head (lot 24). So early on, he had the chance to acquire important pieces wich today, would be difficult to find.