- Artist
- Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010
- Medium
- Drypoint and ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 215 × 278 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Rosamond Bernier in Honor of John Russell (Tate Americas Foundation) 2016
- Reference
- P14730
Summary
These prints were gifts from Louise Bourgeois to Rosamond Bernier and John Russell, dating from 1996 to 2008. They are all editioned prints or artist’s proofs and many were sent out as Christmas cards, signed, dated and inscribed by the artist. The prints are mostly figurative drawings, with the exception of four text pieces. The images are typical of Bourgeois’s repertoire, showing objects such as chairs, hanging spirals, trees, wishbones and a dress, waves with eyes and a hybrid woman with the head of plant. As such, they touch on themes of growth, creation, anxiety, love and luck and are loaded with psychological significance and meaning within the artist’s particular visual language.
Further reading
Rosamond Bernier, Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir, New York 2011.
Ann Coxon
February 2013
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