Louise Bourgeois

French | 1911 - 2010

Louise Bourgeois was a French Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1911. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art have featured Louise Bourgeois's work in the past.Louise Bourgeois's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 104 USD to 32,804,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 32,804,500 USD for Spider, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2023. In the past 12 months, her sculptures have averaged 490,395 USD, while her works on paper have sold for an average of 336,211 USD.Louise Bourgeois has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Observer in April 2025. The artist died in 2010.

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Louise Bourgeois ,2007

By Louise Bourgeois

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Quarantania ,2005

By Louise Bourgeois

Spider III ,1995

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Spider V ,1999

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Louise Bourgeois ,2007

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I have been to hell and back - Louise Bourgeois

I have been to hell and back ,2007

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Untitled ,2000

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Untitled ('I have been to hell and back ,1996

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Together (MoMA 1119) ,2004

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I Do ,2010

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Current Exhibitions

Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists

Freud Museum

London | UK

Oct 30,2024 - May 05,2025

Refiguring Modernism: A Fractured and Disorienting World

Allen Memorial Art Museum

Oberlin | Ohio | USA

Jul 05,2023 - May 31,2025

Collection 2: Undo, Redo

National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan)

Osaka | Japan

Feb 15,2025 - Jun 01,2025

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Articles

Art Asia Pacific 17/04/2025

The year鈥檚 edition gathered 240 galleries from 42 countries, with Asia-Pacific galleries comprising more than half the participants鈥攖he highest representation from the region to date.

BmoreArt 18/04/2025

The New Exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Isn't Here to Make You Comfortable.

Wallpaper 16/04/2025

Members of Poush have created 160 works, set in and around the grounds of Ch芒teau La Coste 鈥� the art, architecture and wine estate in Provence.

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鈥� ..Although her oeuvre includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and performance, Bourgeois is best known for her sculptures, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and across a diverse... 鈥�
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

鈥� ..Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) is best-known for her powerful emotionally charged works exploring the unconscious, desire and the body... 鈥�
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Glasgow Print Studio

鈥� ..Despite the deeply personal references to her own life in her work, as well as to a range of art historical movements, Bourgeois鈥檚 unique visual language ultimately reaches beyond both, raising universal... 鈥�
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Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

鈥� ..Bourgeois鈥檚 long and distinguished career reveals a vast oeuvre in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the 20th century鈥攆rom surrealism to conceptual art鈥攂ut... 鈥�
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MOCA Grand Avenue

鈥� ..Inspired by ideas and styles from diverse avant-garde art movements in Europe and America鈥攏otably Surrealism, primitivism, psychoanalysis, conceptualism and feminism鈥�Bourgeois forged a highly personal... 鈥�
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution