Cheim & Read, New York
Private Collection, California (acquired from the above)
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Akron Art Museum, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, November 3, 1982 - January 5, 1984 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Maeght-Lelong; Zurich, Maeght-Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Retrospektive 1947-1984, February - March 1985 (another example exhibited)
Bridgehampton, Dia Art Foundation, Louise Bourgeois: Works from the Sixties, May 25 - June 25, 1989, p. 4 (another example exhibited and installation view illustrated)
Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d’art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fundación Tàpies; Kunstmuseum Bern; Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 2, 1989 - July 8, 1991 (another example exhibited)
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, The Ohio State University, Inaugural Exhibition Part II - Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, May 18 - August 5, 1990 (another example exhibited)
New York, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, Human Hands (Modeled Sculpture), May 9 - June 6, 1992 (another example exhibited)
Santa Monica, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Louise Bourgeois, January 9 - February 27, 1993 (another example exhibited)
Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Louise Bourgeois Personages, 1940s / Installations, 1990s, July 31 - August 8, 1993 (another example exhibited)
Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger Wien, Louise Bourgeois 1939-89 Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, May 18 - June 12, 1990 (another example exhibited)
Monterrey, MARCO; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Louise Bourgeois, June 15, 1995 - August 15, 1996, p. 61 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Mahwah, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Heavy Metal: From Process to Performance, September 17 - October 17, 2008 (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern; Paris, Centre Pompidou; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Louise Bourgeois, October 10, 2007 - June 7, 2009 (another example exhibited)
London, Hauser & Wirth, After Awkward Objects: Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, November 17 - December 16, 2009 (another example exhibited)
Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa; Sao Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna, Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, March 19 - November 13, 2011, no. 20, p. 181 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
John Howell, ed., Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America 1950 - 1990, New York, 1991, p. 102 (another example illustrated)
Robert Storr, Paulo Herkenhoff and Allan Schwartzman, Louise Bourgeois, London, 2003, p. 61 (another example illustrated)
French-American • 1911 - 2010
Known for her idiosyncratic style, Louise Bourgeois was a pioneering and iconic figure of twentieth and early twenty-first century art. Untied to an art historical movement, Bourgeois was a singular voice, both commanding and quiet.
Bourgeois was a prolific printmaker, draftsman, sculptor and painter. She employed diverse materials including metal, fabric, wood, plaster, paper and paint in a range of scale — both monumental and intimate. She used recurring themes and subjects (animals, insects, architecture, the figure, text and abstraction) as form and metaphor to explore the fragility of relationships and the human body. Her artworks are meditations of emotional states: loneliness, jealousy, pride, anger, fear, love and longing.
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