Staring into your soul.
House 1994
Marble
the puritan 1990-97 (text: 1947)
Folio set no. 3: engravings with selective wiping, gouache and watercolour additions
Lullaby 2006
Series of twenty-five screenprints on fabric: title sheet and twenty-four compositions
Bourgeois created shapes by turning and tracing common household objects – scissors, a knife and a candy dish, among them. She published this set herself, under the imprint Lison Editions. Lison, Lise, Lisette, Louison and Louisette were among her childhood nicknames.
Ode à l’Oubli 2004
Fabric illustrated book with thirty fabric collages and four lithographs
The pages of this book are composed of linen hand towels saved from her trousseau. Many contain the embroidered monogram LBG (Louise Bourgeois Goldwater). Bourgeois later issued and editioned version of this book in twenty-five examples. In that version, the pages are tied together through buttonholes instead of bound so all of the pages can be displayed simultaneously, as seen on this wall.
Untitled 1998
Fabric and stainless steel
Stamp of Memories I 1993
Drypoint with metal stamp additions
Sainte Sébastienne 1992
Drypoint
Triptych for the Red Room 1994
Aquatint, drypoint and engraving
“The subject of pain is the business I am in.“ – LB
Self Portrait 2007
Gouache on paper
Self Portrait 1990
Drypoint, etching and aquatint
I Redo (interior element) from the installation
I Do, I Undo, I Redo 1999-2000
Steel, glass wood and tapestry
Untitled 1940
Oil and pencil on board
Lacs de Montagne (Mountain Lakes), 1996 & 1997
Engraving and aquatint with watercolour, gouache and ink additions
Arch of Hysteria 1993
Bronze, polished patina
Spider 1997
Note from Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, an exhibition that ran at the MoMA, until end January 2018: ”[…] explores the prints, books, and creative process of the celebrated sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). Bourgeois’s printed oeuvre, a little-known aspect of her work, is vast in scope and comprises some 1,200 printed compositions, created primarily in the last two decades of her life but also at the beginning of her career, in the 1940s. The Museum of Modern Art has a prized archive of this material, and the exhibition will highlight works from the collection along with rarely seen loans […].”
September 25th, 2017
Fantastic post! Thanx Lia ❤
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Thank you so much Pelly! I did enjoy this exhibition, mainly for the printed material (most of which was the first time I’d seen). And had a great time ”revisiting” it while picking photos for the post.
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