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Louise Bourgeois — VisualArtsDB

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

Paris, France · b. 1911 — d. 2010

Timeline

Born 1911 — Died 2010

1930s

Pinus Sylvestris

St. Germain

Dream

Pierre

+21

1940s

Composition

Man Reading

Man Reading

The Farm

+287

1950s

Untitled

Sleeping Figure

Untitled

Untitled

+7

1960s

Torso, Self-Portrait

Amoeba

Amoeba

Portrait

The Quartered One

+5

1970s

Cumuls

No (2)

No (3)

No (1-3)

+27

1980s

Untitled, no. 1 of 4, from Child Abuse: A Project by Louise Bourgeois for Artforum

Untitled, no. 2 of 4, from Child Abuse: A Project by Louise Bourgeois for Artforum

Child Abuse: A Project by Louise Bourgeois for Artforum

Untitled, no. 3 of 4, from Child Abuse: A Project by Louise Bourgeois for Artforum

+106

1990s

Sainte Sébastienne

Untitled, plate 6 of 8, from the puritan

Untitled, plate 8 of 8, from the maquette of the illustrated book, the puritan

Untitled, plate 3 of 8, from the illustrated book, the puritan

+1401

2000s

The Guilty Girl Is Fragile

Hold My Bones

The Son Is Father to the Man

The Guilty Girl Is Fragile

+1515

2010s

When My Cunt Stopped Living, no. 16 of 16, from the series, Do Not Abandon Me

And So I Kissed You, no. 4 of 16, from the series, Do Not Abandon Me

Untitled

Come Unto Me, no. 5 of 16, from the series, Do Not Abandon Me

+31

Works

3,438 artworks

Mosquito

, 1999

Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

Peeking through Curtain

, 1999

Who Where When Why What

, 1999

Mother and Child

, 1999

Hold My Bones Together

, 1999

Cemetery I, only state, variant

, 1999

The Smell of the Feet

, 1999

Le Père, la Mère, et les 3 Enfants

, 1999

Hold My Bones Together

, 1999

Untitled

, 1999

Mosquito

, 1999

I Pick on Everyone, Dead or Alive, no. 4 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

Do Not Abandon Me

, 1999

Hold My Bones Together

, 1999

The Papillon, the Ray of Hope, no. 6 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

Hold My Bones Together

, 1999

Repairs in the Sky, no. 3 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

Hold My Bones Together

, 1999

Mosquito

, 1999

Untitled, plate 3 of 5, from the illustrated book, Metamorfosis

, 1999

To Unravel a Torment You Must Begin Somewhere, no. 8 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

To Unravel a Torment You Must Begin Somewhere, no. 8 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

The Papillon, the Ray of Hope, no. 6 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

, 1999

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