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Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) was born in Paris 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 widely exhibited.
Printmaking had been important to Bourgeois since the 1940s, when she worked at William Stanley Hayter's intaglio workshop, Atelier 17. Bourgeois was introduced to Felix Harlan and Carol Weaver in 1989 by master lithographer Judith Solodkin, when they were asked to print the plates for Bourgeois’s Anatomy series. This began a long, 21-year working relationship. Harlan & Weaver first published Bourgeois’s prints in 1999; they went on to publish more than 25 individual prints and 3 print portfolios. Felix Harlan worked on the plates with Bourgeois in her Chelsea home, pulling state proofs on the small press installed in her basement. After Bourgeois approved the BAT, the edition would be printed at the Harlan & Weaver studio. Harlan and Bourgeois continued to work together until her death on May 31st, 2010, at 98.
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Don't Worry, 2009
aquatint
Somerset soft white paper
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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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Hairy Spider, 2001
drypoint
Medical Print, 2001
drypoint
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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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