Robert Mapplethorpe

Louise Bourgeois

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About this artwork

Louise Bourgeois was a French-born, American artist who began making surrealist-inspired paintings and prints, but turned to sculpture in the late 1940s. Her sculptures, often but not always abstract, have strong allusions to the human body and especially to human sexuality. In this photograph she is carrying one of her own works, a phallic-shaped sculpture that her right hand is holding in a suggestive manner. Her smile is very knowing.

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  • artist:
  • title:
    Louise Bourgeois
  • date created:
    1982; printed 1991
  • materials:
    Gelatin silver print on paper
  • measurements:
    37.50 x 37.40 cm (framed: 64.50 x 62.00 x 3.80 cm)
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008
  • accession number:
    AR00215
  • gallery:
  • depicted:
  • artwork photographed by:
    Antonia Reeve
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Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe