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Louise Bourgeois

1911–2010

KNIFE COUPLE 1949
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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

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  • Tits

    Louise Bourgeois
    1967
  • Nature Study

    Louise Bourgeois
    1986
  • Single II

    Louise Bourgeois
    1996
  • Cell XIV (Portrait)

    Louise Bourgeois
    2000
  • Home for Runaway Girls

    Louise Bourgeois
    1994
  • I Am Afraid

    Louise Bourgeois
    2009
  • Give or Take

    Louise Bourgeois
    2002
  • Couple I

    Louise Bourgeois
    1996
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  • Louise Bourgeois

    Robert Mapplethorpe
    1982, printed 1991
  • Sewing

    Louise Bourgeois
    1994
  • Woman in Bathtub

    Louise Bourgeois
    1994

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