Representative work by Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois

b. 1911, Paris, France · Based in New York, New York

  • École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1938)
  • Académie de la Grande Chaumière
  • Sorbonne (Mathematics)
  • Sculpture
  • Installation
  • Textiles
  • Bronze

Louise Bourgeois was an icon of modern sculpture whose pioneering psychological oeuvre examined trauma, female sexuality, maternity, and familial architecture. Renowned for monumental bronze spiders (Maman) and enclosed sensory 'Cells', her work revolutionized twentieth-century spatial installations.

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