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Louise Bourgeois

1911–2010

KNIFE COUPLE 1949
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18 artworks by Louise Bourgeois
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Biography

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 much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

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Artworks

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  • Louise Bourgeois Tits

    1967
  • Louise Bourgeois Nature Study

    1986
  • Louise Bourgeois Single II

    1996
  • Louise Bourgeois Cell XIV (Portrait)

    2000
  • Louise Bourgeois Home for Runaway Girls

    1994
  • Louise Bourgeois I Am Afraid

    2009
    On display at Tate Modern part of Level 4: Joiner Galleries
  • Louise Bourgeois Give or Take

    2002
  • Louise Bourgeois Couple I

    1996
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Artist as subject

  • Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Bourgeois

    1982, printed 1991
  • Louise Bourgeois Sewing

    1994
  • Louise Bourgeois Woman in Bathtub

    1994

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    Louise Bourgeois: 'I transform hate into love'

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