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Oct 10, 2007 · Louise Bourgeois. 10 October 2007 – 20 January 2008. Louise Bourgeois is one of the world’s most respected sculptors. Over a long career she has worked through most of the twentieth century’s avant-garde artistic movements from abstraction to realism, yet has always remained uniquely individual, powerfully inventive, and often at the ...
Sep 24, 2017 · Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait explores the prints, books, and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Bourgeois’s printed oeuvre, a little-known aspect of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,200 printed compositions, created primarily in the last two decades of her life but also at the beginning of her career, in the 1940s.
With a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s until 2010, Louise Bourgeois is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. Her endlessly inventive work, inspired by her memories and experiences, spanned monumental installations, figurative sculptures, fabric collages and drawings, a selection which feature in this exhibition.
Oct 16, 1998 · The exhibition features approximately 90 works made using textiles. The Woven Child surveys the complete range of fabric artworks produced by Louise Bourgeois between between the mid 1990s and her death in 2010. It features approximately 90 works made using domestic textiles, including clothing, linens and tapestry fragments often sourced from ...
4 days ago · Louise Bourgeois' Spider. Currently sitting in the Capability Brown-designed gardens of the manor house Compton Verney is a giant spider: 15 feet of bronze, with a dense body at the centre and ...
Printmaking was integral to the practice of sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), who worked in the medium in the late 1930s and 1940s, and in the late 1980s through 2010, when prints became a daily activity. This website highlights the themes that preoccupied her, and the creative process revealed in her evolving print states and versions.
MoMA | Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books | Biography. Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois was raised by parents who ran a tapestry restoration business. A gifted student, she also helped out in the workshop by drawing missing elements in the scenes depicted on the tapestries. During this time, her father carried on an affair ...
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