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Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her ch…
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Born 25 December 1911 · Died 31 May 2010 · Q159409
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“different types of pain; physical, emotional and psychological, mental and intellectual ... Each Cell deals with a fear. Fear is pain ... Each Cell deals with the pleasure of the voyeur, the thrill of looking and being looked at.”
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“Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.”
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Women's Wear Daily: EXCLUSIVE: Sandro Launches Capsule Collection Inspired by Louise Bourgeois
As "chronically overrated" and as "a mediocre artist raised by the institutional demand for a 'modern master' to a level at which her weakness and inadequacy are inescapably apparent
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Artnet: ‘If This Doesn’t Touch You, I Have Failed’: Watch Louise Bourgeois Demonstrate How She Sculpted Her Own Hands
The Forward: Don’t reduce Louise Bourgeois’s art to an Oedipus complex
Bourgeois work was featured in a major group show at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida
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Hyperallergic: Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, a Conversation with Curator Deborah Wye
The New Yorker: Louise Bourgeois Was More Than a Sculptor
The museum launched the online catalogue raisonné
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One of Bourgeois's works, titled Spider, sold for $10
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Died 2010-05-31.
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The last year of her life, Bourgeois used her art to speak up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality
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“Uma artista pode mostrar coisas que outras pessoas têm medo de expressar.”
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2009).
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2009).
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The Washington Post: 'Louise Bourgeois': Transforming Pain Into Art
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctorate (2005).
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Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (2003).
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Her works were selected to be shown at the opening of the Tate Modern in London
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1999).
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Won National Medal of Arts (1997).
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And lent to the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil, was sent on a multi-city tour to institutions and public areas such as the Inhotim Institute in Minas Gerais, the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, and then
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When the Royal Academy of Arts staged its comprehensive survey of American art in the 20th century, the organizers did not consider Bourgeois's work of significant importance to include in the survey
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Bourgeois' work was shown at Documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany
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Bourgeois decided to donate the complete archive of her printed work to the Museum of Modern Art
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Bourgeois made a drypoint etching, Mud Lane, of the home she maintained in Stapleton, Staten Island, which she treated as a sculptural environment rather than a living space
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Karsten Greve in Paris in 1990, Xavier Hufkens in Brussels in 1996 and Hauser & Wirth in 1997
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York City featured the unknown artist Louise Bourgeois' work
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By the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
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Awarded Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (1980).
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Bourgeois was commissioned by the General Services Administration to create Facets of the Sun, her first public sculpture
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Femme Maison was featured on the cover of Lucy Lippard's book From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art and became an icon of the feminist art movement
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Bourgeois started teaching at the Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, Brooklyn College and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
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Bourgeois and her husband moved into a terraced house at West 20th Street, in Chelsea, Manhattan, where she lived and worked for the rest of her life
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Bourgeois joined the American Abstract Artists Group, with several contemporaries, among them Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt
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Bourgeois was featured in an exhibition of fourteen women artists at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, titled The Women
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Studied at Académie Julian (1938–1938).
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Studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris (1936–1938).
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Opened her own gallery in a space next door to her father's tapestry gallery where she showed the work of artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Henri Matisse and Suzanne Valadon, and where she met visiting American art p
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Studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1937–1938).
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Studied at University of Paris (1932–1935).
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While Bourgeois was studying mathematics
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Bourgeois entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics and geometry, subjects that she valued for their stability, saying "I got peace of mind, only through the study of rules nobody could change
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Studied at Lycée Fénelon, Paris (1921–1927).
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Born 1911-12-25.
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