LOUISE BOURGEOIS: Sculptor Louise Bourgeois Died

Arch of Hysteria, 1993
Polished Bronze (c) Louise Bourgeois /All Rights Reserved

An Interview With Louise Bourgeois
(Elizabeth Avedon Editions|Vintage Contemporary Artists)

Cover Photograph (c) Richard Avedon
Polished Bronze Sculpture (c) Louise Bourgeois

Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Spider Sculpture outside the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

"Art is not about art"

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New York Times Obituary

Artist and sculptor, Louise Bourgeois, born in Paris December 25, 1911, died at home May 31, 2010 at 98 years old. She began her career as a draftsman at 12, providing drawings for the missing pieces of tapestries for her families business. At 15 she studied mathematics at the Sorbonne, then began studying painting at the École du Louvre and the École des Beaux-Arts, later working as assistant to Fernand Léger. After moving to the U.S. with her American husband, art historian and Director of the Museum of Primitive Art of New York, Robert Goldwater, she studied at the Art Students League of New York.

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