Louise Bourgeois
Femme, 2005
pink marble
17,1 x 12,7 x 8,9 cm
From the collection of the Christen Sveaas’ Kunststiftelse
Louise Bourgeois’s Femme is a small yet compelling figure: headless and seemingly caught in perpetual metamorphosis. Sculpted in pink marble when the artist was 93 years old, its miniature, pregnant form encapsulates Bourgeois’s enduring preoccupation with themes of motherhood, transformation, and trauma.
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Louise Bourgeois, Femme. Pink marble, 2005. Courtesy Christen Sveaas’ Kunststiftelse
Louise Bourgeois, New York 1996. Photo: Oliver Mark/Wikimedia/ Creative Commons
Louise Bourgeois (she/her, b.1911, Paris – 2010, New York) was a pioneering female artist whose diverse body of work spanned nearly seven decades. Throughout her career, Bourgeois encompassed various mediums, from large-scale installations to intimate drawings, exploring complex themes of family dynamics, sexuality, the female body, mortality, and the unconscious. She exhibited extensively at prestigious institutions worldwide, shows including: Eccentric Abstraction, Fischbach Gallery, Miami, 1966; Documenta IX, Kassel, 1992; the 45th Venice Biennale, 1993; and a major retrospective at Tate Modern, London, 2007. From 1938 until her death, Bourgeois lived and worked in New York.
