“This is friendly. The parts relate harmoniously but retain independence. They are close, but do not mix. Relating can be with or without touching... or bonding. To make a braid is to obey very strict rules... it is making order out of chaos.”
—Louise Bourgeois
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.
1989-90年作 直刻版畫 英國索馬賽特版畫紙本（全包邊） I. 6 7/8 x 4 英吋（17.5 x 10.2 公分） S. 19 1/2 x 14 英吋（49.5 x 35.6 公分） 款識：簽名、S.P.I. 2 尚有44版、10版羅馬數字藝術家試作版，由紐約Peter Blum版畫出版，此為未裱SOLO Press銘刻版。
