Louise Bourgeois (French/American, 1911-2010)
Intaglio with hand-applied gouache 37 x 28 in.
Louise Bourgeois’s artistic production defies easy categorization. She has been linked to Surrealism, American Abstraction, and Feminist Art, yet her work does not fit squarely into any 20th-century art movement. Born in France in 1911, Bourgeois arrived in the United States in 1938 and over the next seven decades produced a body of work centered on themes of childhood trauma, domesticity, sexuality, and the subconscious. The Paris Review commissioned this work, which appeared on the cover of its Spring 1994 issue of the magazine.
Bourgeois’s work is in the permanent collections of most major national and international museums.
More information on Louis Bourgeois can be found here:
https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/42202-louise-bourgeois-once-there-was-a-mother/