Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French pronunciation: /luiz buʁʒwa/; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010)
In the late 1940s, after moving to New York City with her American husband, Robert Goldwater, she turned to sculpture.
Though her works are abstract, they are suggestive of the human figure and express themes of betrayal, anxiety, and loneliness. Her work was wholly autobiographical, inspired by her childhood trauma of discovering that her English governess was also her father’s mistress.
Bourgeois was born on 25 December 1911 in Paris, France.
By the time she was 11, her father, Louis Bourgeois,a tyrannical philanderer, was indulging in a long affair with her English teacher.
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- tasting rhubarb: Louise Bourgeois: 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010
Louise Bourgeois: 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010. ‘Maman’ by Louise Bourgeois. on the South Bank as part of her London retrospective in 2007. Seeing that retrospective – twice – was very exciting. The fierce, astonishing, angry beauty … Read more - Venice Pays Tribute to Louise Bourgeois with Her Last Active …
VENICE.- During the preparation of her exhibition at the Magazzino del Sale in Venice, the sudden news arrived in the afternoon of Monday 31st May of Louise Bourgeois’s death. Louise continued to work in her studio home in New York … Read more - louise bourgeois at the biennale of sydney 2010
louise bourgeois was born in paris in 1911 and moved to new york in 1938, where she continued to live and work, until her death in 2010. for over 60 years, bourgeois worked across disciplines, producing sculptures, drawings, paintings …Read more - Louise Bourgeois, Artist and Sculptor, Is Dead – ArtsBeat Blog …
Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world. Read more - Louise Bourgeois « Slow Muse
Louise Bourgeois is hard to place in my personal inspiration taxonomy. I have been aware of her for most of my art-making life, but I never had the deep connection to her work that I have had with the pack of painters who were my early … Read more - Sculptor Louise Bourgeois, 98, was working until the end …
Artist Louise Bourgeois died last weekend at 98. And true to her character, she had continued creating artwork — her latest pieces were finished just two weeks ago — before suffering a heart attack. Read more
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