The Artist
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1995
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Louise Bourgeois, November 3, 1982 - January 5, 1984, no. 93, p. 121 (illustrated, p. 73)
Amsterdam, Museum Overholland, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper 1939-1988, October 22 - December 31, 1988
Paris, Galerie Lelong, Louise Bourgeois: Dessins 1940-1986, February 19 - March 25, 1989
Cologne, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Louise Bourgeois Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, November 16, 1990 - January 19, 1991
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Louise Bourgeois, July 8 - September 4, 1994
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.
View More Works