Artist: Louise Bourgeois (1911 - )
Nationality: French-American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Louis Bourgeois was born in Paris and trained there under Leger. In 1938, she married American art historian Rover Goldwater and moved to New York. There, she began her artistic career as a painter and printmaker but eventually turned to sculpture in the late 1940’s. Her abstract work incorporates the use of stone, metal and latex. In 1933, Bourgeois represented the United States and the Venice Biennale.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Louise Bourgeois - Quarantania, III 1949-50 bronze The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Spring 1949 balsa wood National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Spider 1996-1997 bronze National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Mortise 1950 painted wood National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Articulated Lair 1986 painted steel, rubbe The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Sleeping Figure 1950 painted balsa wood The Museum of Modern Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - The Winged Figure 1948-1991 bronze National Gallery of Art American
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Louise Bourgeois - Untitled (with foot) 1989 pink marble Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Eyes, 1982 Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911)Marble; H. 74-3/4, W. 54, D. 45-3/4 in.
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HonorÈ Daumier, Ce que le bourgeois est convenu de nommer une petite distraction no. 14 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1846
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Louise Bourgeois - The Blind Leading The Blind 1947-1949 painted wood constru Hirshhorn Museum American
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Louise M. Glazier, Bookplate: Ex Libris, Louise M. Glazier, 1900
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HonorÈ Daumier, Quand il y a trente degrÈs de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu"il va dormir dans la forÍt de St Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lÈzards! no. 27 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1847
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HonorÈ Daumier, Le bourgeois au Salon no. 4 from the series Caricatures du jour, 1842
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Eugene Berman, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: costume design for a young girl, 1944
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Louise-Antoinette Feuardent
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Louise Brongniart 1777 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Louise Nevelson, Cat, 1965
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HonorÈ Daumier, Au nouvel an, visite obligÈe ý la tante Rabourdin no. 46 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1847
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HonorÈ Daumier, Au nouvel an, visite obligÈe ý la tante Rabourdin no. 46 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1847
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HonorÈ Daumier, ãAttention, Gargouillet, v*lý le bourgeois qui passe avec son Èpouse; , (no. 26) from the series LES BAIGNEURS, 1842
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HonorÈ Daumier, "Robert.... tu ne soutiens plus la conversation... c"est pas poli Áa!..." no. 53 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1847
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Clement Pruche, Les Domestiques: Je suis si bonne! que les enfans de mes bourgeois sont heureux!!, 19th century
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Francisco de Goya - Therese Louise de Sureda c. 1803-1804 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Spanish
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Flintlock Gun, ca. 1620 Made by Pierre Le Bourgeois (died 1627)French (Lisieux)Steel, chiseled, blued, and
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Louise Nevelson, Inner View, 1965
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Charles Edouard De Beaumont, Croquis Parisiens - Tiens...il parait que ton bourgeois a la meme idÈe..., 19th century
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Louise Nevelson, Dawnscape, 1978
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HonorÈ Daumier, Plus souvent que tu m"attraperas encore ý satisfaire ta fantasie d"aller diner sur l"herbe... no. 43 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1847
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Louise Nevelson, Sunken Cathedral, 1953 - 1955
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Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun, Bacchante, 1785
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HonorÈ Daumier, "Brigand de tailleur... quelle mauvais drap il me donne...... voilý encore un habit qu"a rÈtrÈci!..." no. 47 from the series Les bons bourgeois, 1847
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Mondain, Marie Louise, 19th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Doux loisirs d"un quincailler retirÈ du commerce des hommes et des chenets no. 79 from the series Les bons bourgeois published in Le Charivari 28 April 1848, 1848
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Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762-1848), 1789 Élisabeth Louise Vigée
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Morris Henry Hobbs, Louise, 19th - 20th century
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Louise-Josephine Sarazin de Belmont, The Falls at Tivoli, 1826
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Edgar Degas, Mme. Ludovic HalÈvy (Louise Breguet HalÈvy), circa 1895
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Charles Dorman Robinson, Lake Louise, 19th - 20th century
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Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of a Woman (Louise Beatrice de Fonblanque), 1868

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Louise Bourgeois Prints: 1989-1998
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Tate Modern: The Unilever Series: Louise Bourgeois
Three large steel towers, about 30 feet high, dominate the east end of the Turbine Hall. Each tower supports a platform on which two chairs are surrounded by a series of large swivel mirrors. The mirrors with their reflective surfa...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Louise Bourgeois: Aller – Retour
One room offers a retrospective of older works by the French born artist. The focus of the show however lies on the oeuvre of the last ten years, the majority of which are diary-like drawings, in which text and symbols frequently mingle. The...
Historische Museum, Museen Der Stadt Wien: Journey to Vienna: Photographs from 1860-1910
Thus, on May 1, 1873 the Fifth World Exhibition open on the Prater in Vienna. During this period of stormy economic development photography studios were cleary influenced by it. A good clientle was the self-emanzipating bourgeois.Through photog...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Louise Bourgeois: First Retrospective in Denmark
The exhibition, organized in cooperation with the artist herself, includes works on loan from all over the world, offering examples of all the most important categories of her artistic output: the very little-known paintings and slender, statuesqu...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time
Over 20 pieces, most created in the last three years, are accompanied by a selection of the artist’s graphic work including He disappeared into Complete Silence, 1946, her first major suite of etchings and poems in which she unfolds tales of loss ...
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art: Widening Circle: 1990s International Acquisitions
Norwegian Mari Slaattelid, winner of the first prize in the Carnegie Art Award competition, employs different techniques to examine the dimensions of painting. Marko Vuokola's installation, displayed in the same room, suggests the ever wider field...
Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga: Stitches in Time: Louise Bourgeois
Stitches in Time features 20 of Louise Bourgeois’s most recent creations, most dating from the last three years. They include small characters, life-size sewn busts, totemic figures and display case-cells. In all of them, cloth acts as a material ...
Musee d'Orsay: Daumier
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State Hermitage Museum: Louise Bourgeois: First Major Exhibition of a Living American Artist Within the Walls of the Winter Palace
These works reveal the enormous emotional charge Bourgeois gives her creations. An installation of the Insomnia Drawings, on loan from the Daros Foundation in Switzerland, be seen in a room of the second floor of the museum. The courtyard of the H...
Museum of Arts and Sciences: Crossing the Threshold with Thelma and Louise
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism
Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism is an international manifestation of contemporary art, organised by the Rotterdam City Collection. It comprises a group exhibition, a catalogue and a poster presentation and encompasses the expansion of Rotterdam a...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
National Academy of Design: Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003
A strength of this exhibition is the numerous self-portraits by women artists. One membership requirement of newly elected Academicians is that all must donate a portrait of themselves to the museum's permanent collection. This has provided the Ac...
NSA Gallery: Inside: Looking In by Linda Jones
The artist states that the exhibition explores an inner space as well as an outer space. These images speak of a defining of my own space – a reclaiming and negotiation of space. Spaces that are visible and others that are somehow private and inac...
Museo del Prado: Fortuny, Madrazo and Rico. The Ramon de Errazu Bequest
The core of the bequest is the group of ten works by Mariano Fortuny. It includes major compositions such as Nude on the Beach at Portici, a masterpiece and synthesis of the artist’s late style, as well as Elderly Nude in the Sun, a work that look...
Galerie St. Etienne: Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth
"COMING OF AGE" also includes works by Erich Heckel, E.L. Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch and others. At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of adolescence as a distinct developmental phase between childhood...
Swope Art Museum: Call for Artists: 59th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibit
Larry Rinder has curated numerous art shows including exhibits by renowned artists Louise Bourgeois, Richard Diebenkorn, and the prestigious Whitney Biennial. Widely published and respected, Rinder has taught at both Columbia University and the Un...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Generali Foundation: Things We Don't Understand
Is there a difference between aesthetic experience and the experiences of our daily life? The artists of this show use found objects, documentary photographs, conv...
Tate Modern: Juan Munoz: new sculpture unveiled
Juan Muñoz is renowned for sculptural works in which he situates the human figure within elaborate or complex architectural settings. These are created using elements such as patterned floors, staircases and balconies. Then, by a ...
National Gallery: Encounters: NEW art from OLD
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times have wrestled with traditi...
Espace Arlaud: Plastic
Anne Bourgeois Meier imagined dancers embalm, playing with their forms, the transparency and fluidity of plastic. Isabelle Fink always works with supple forms and creates gigantic works, sometimes that fly. Youri Messen-Jaschin integrates supple e...
Chambers Fine Art: Insight: Paintings by Qiu Shihua
Unlike the younger generation of artists who have for the most part turned their back on oil painting, Qiu Shihua found his initial inspiration in the French Impressionists whose work he saw in person for the first time in the mid-1980s. In 1989, ...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Stedelijk Museum: Grayson Perry - Guerrilla Tactics
At first sight Perry's pots stand in the centuries-old tradition of classic vases decorated with figures. They look attractive, full of colour and loaded with pictures, inscriptions and ...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: WOMEN ON VIEW
These photographs are intended to show how we look and what we do, says Annie Leibovitz, and they create a vivid and striking collective portrait of women today. Im very moved by the sense of...
Telfair Museum of Art: WINDOWS TO HEAVEN: RUSSIAN ICONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DANIEL BIBB AND THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
Russian icons have a long history. The earliest Russian icons appeared in Kiev in the 10th or 11th centuries; the icons in this exhibition range in date from the late 17th to ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection
In the 1960s, Marc and Livia Straus, residents of Chappaqua, New York, began collecting contemporary works which, at the time they were made, provoked the response, Is this artNULL ...

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Louise Bourgeois Online
Louise Bourgeois: Drawings
Art:21 . Louise Bourgeois . Biography | PBS
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Louise Bourgeois Art Minimal & Conceptual Only
What is Art? What is an Artist? Page by Louise Bourgeois
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