Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois, June 23 - October 8, 1995
New York, Swiss Institute, Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Ilse Weber: Drawings and Works on Paper, May 28 - July 3, 1999
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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