Louise Bourgeois

1911–2010

KNIFE COUPLE 1949
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Artworks

A small dark bronze with glossy black patina, two swelling rounded lobes meeting in a central cleft like a pair of breasts, the tips rubbed to a golden bronze sheen

Tits

Louise Bourgeois

Small bronze with a silvery-grey patina: thick coils wound into a tight knot atop a cluster of tapering finger-like forms pressed together

Nature Study

Louise Bourgeois

Single II

Louise Bourgeois

A dark wire-mesh cage with a doorway, through which a red fabric form of three conjoined heads is visible on a stand inside

Cell XIV (Portrait)

Louise Bourgeois

Home for Runaway Girls

Louise Bourgeois

I Am Afraid

Louise Bourgeois

Give or Take

Louise Bourgeois

Couple I

Louise Bourgeois

Artist as subject

Black-and-white photograph of an elderly woman in a shaggy dark feathered coat, smiling broadly at the camera with a large latex sculpture of a phallus tucked under her right arm.

Louise Bourgeois

Robert Mapplethorpe

1982, printed 1991

Sewing

Louise Bourgeois

Woman in Bathtub

Louise Bourgeois

Stories

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The Art of Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois: 'I transform hate into love'

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