Louise Bourgeois’ monumental spider sculptures are her best-known works. She began them late in life, revisiting childhood traumas that shaped her art practice.

MIGNON NIXON Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. 352 pp.; 103 b/w ills. $40.00 Suicide. Madness. Institutionalization. Accident. Illness.

A show in Frankfurt features 260 works by 34 female artists who were as subversive as any male Surrealist. Price Database. 18 June 2025. Artworks. Artists. ... Louise Bourgeois, Torso Self ...

French-born artist Louise Bourgeois, who passed away Monday, was known for her 'confessional' work that explored themes of female sexuality, birth, and death.

Painter, Sculptor Best Known for Spider-Like Figures Mixed Surrealism, Primitivism to Express Themes of Sexuality. ... Artist Louise Bourgeois Dies in N.Y.C. at 98. May 31, ...

On View Louise Bourgeois Joins the Ranks of Classical Masters at Rome’s Galleria Borghese. The French-American sculptor's suggestive work explored many of the same themes as the Old Masters.

When Louise Bourgeois was 10, ... Although she was associated with movements including abstract expressionism and surrealism, she wasn’t a signed-up member of any of them.

Louise Bourgeois’ monumental spider sculptures are her best-known works. She began them late in life, revisiting childhood traumas that shaped her art practice.

Louise Bourgeois’ monumental spider sculptures are her best-known works. She began them late in life, revisiting childhood traumas that shaped her art practice.