Louise Bourgeois

1911–2010

In Tate Modern

In the Studio: International Surrealism

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In Tate Liverpool

Biography

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] (listen); 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 subconscious. 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 much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

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Artworks

Louise Bourgeois Maman

1999

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Louise Bourgeois Spider

1994

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Louise Bourgeois Fillette (Sweeter Version)

1968–99, cast 2001

On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio L02885

Louise Bourgeois 10 am is When You Come to Me

2006

AL00345

Louise Bourgeois Cell (Eyes and Mirrors)

1989–93

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Louise Bourgeois Janus Fleuri

1968

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Louise Bourgeois Nature Study

1986

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Louise Bourgeois Mamelles

1991, cast 2001

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Constellations T11916

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Artist as subject

Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Bourgeois

1982, printed 1991

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Louise Bourgeois Woman in Bathtub

1994

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Louise Bourgeois Sewing

1994

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Film and audio

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Louise Bourgeois: 'I transform hate into love'

We take an intimate look at the life and work of this French artist

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ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Lucy Askew (Senior Curator), Jerry Gorovoy (President of The Easton Foundation) and Anthony d’Offay (ex-officio curator of ARTIST ROOMS ...

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ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois - Episodes

'Episodes', a performance event featuring original costumes by 3rd year Performance Costume Design students from Edinburgh College of Art and ...

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Louise Bourgeois: Taking down the Towers and Spider

Louise Bourgeois' vast installation 'I Do, I Undo, I Redo' was the first commission in The Unilever Series for Tate ...

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Louise Bourgeois conference – Part 1

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition this conference brings together a fascinating range of perspectives on the extraordinary ...

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Louise Bourgeois conference – Part 2

On the occasion of the Louise Bourgeois exhibition this conference brings together a fascinating range of perspectives on the extraordinary ...

Features

Louise Bourgeois, ‘Cell XIV (Portrait)’ 2000

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The Art of Louise Bourgeois

Home, family, sexuality and mortality... find out more about the powerful themes behind Bourgeois's art

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New Voices: Speaking in Half-Whispers

Emily LaBarge

Getting under the skin of Dorothea Tanning's enigmatic painting, A Mi-Voix 1958

Guerrilla Girls, ‘Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?’ 1989

Art Term

Feminist art

Feminist art is art by artists made consciously in the light of developments in feminist art theory in the early ...

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Abject art

Abject art is used to describe artworks which explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety ...

Arthur Rackham illustration from the English edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, published in 1909

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'Despite all my rage, / I'm still just a rat in a cage!'

Charlie Fox

Cages, cells and small rooms – the notion of the contained space has been used to great effect by artists over ...

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ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois inspired outreach in Southampton

Jessica Whitfield and Lauren Nicholas

This blog looks at how the ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery inspired outreach projects with ...

Salvador Dalí and José Montes Baquer in the Alphonse XIII suite at the Hotel Meurice during the making of Impressions of Upper Mongolia 1976

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Fashion icons of the art world

Lily Bonesso

With London Fashion Week starting today, what better time to pay homage to the fashionistas of the Tate Collection? Take ...

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ARTIST ROOMS blog: Confessional Art/Art Confessions

Sara Carter

University of Edinburgh student Sara Carter tells us how an exhibition inspired by ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois came about in ...

Episodes at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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ARTIST ROOMS blog: Bourgeois, Costumes & Dance

Eleanor Robertson

Edinburgh College dance graduate Eleanor Robertson describes her experience working on the Episodes project with Edinburgh College of Art performance ...