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Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 and studied at the Sorbonne, the Ecole du Louvre and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Bourgeois moved to New York in 1938 with her husband, art historian and curator Robert Goldwater, and became an American citizen in 1955. Her sculptures, drawings and prints have been exhibited for six decades, with major installations at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1982), the Reina Sofia, Madrid (1999), the Tate Modern, London (2000), and the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2001). She lives and works in New York.
Printmaking has been important to Bourgeois since the 1940s, when she worked at William Stanley Hayter's intaglio workshop, Atelier 17. Introduced to Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver in 1989 by master lithographer Judith Solodkin, Bourgeois now works almost exclusively on her intaglio prints with Harlan & Weaver. Harlan, who works closely with Bourgeois in her Chelsea home, proofs her plates on two hand-presses installed in her basement.
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Self Portrait, 2007
engraving and drypoint
custom handmade paper with "LB" watermark
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Where I Live, 2001-2007
drypoint
handmade paper
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Baby and Butterfly, 2007
drypoint and engraving
vintage paper & collaged cloth
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The Ladders, 2006
engraving and aquatint
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2001 Prints
Hairy Spider, 2001
drypoint
Medical Print, 2001
drypoint
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11 Drypoints, 1999
a set of eleven prints
The Accident, 1999
drypoint
The Angry Cat, 1999
drypoint
Don't Put your Foot in your Mouth, 1999
drypoint
Fear, 1999
drypoint
Feet, 1999
drypoint
Fences are Obsolete, 1999
drypoint
Madeleine, 1999
drypoint
Mosquito, 1999
drypoint
Mother and Child, 1999
drypoint
Please Hang in There, 1999
drypoint
The Smell of the Feet, 1999
drypoint
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