Louise BourgeoisAmerican, 1911–2010Paris Review
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Not on view at present
Where is “Paris Review” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Washington, D.C., United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 2007.41.1
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In the catalog
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- National Gallery of Art
- Image: National Gallery of Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Louise Bourgeois
The whole life1938–2010 · Workplace
New York City
1987–1997
New dealers: Anglim, Greve, Hufkens, Hauser & Wirth
Bourgeois began working with the Paule Anglim gallery in San Francisco in 1987, with Karsten Greve in Paris in 1990, with Xavier Hufkens in Brussels in 1996 and with Hauser & Wirth in 1997.
13 June 1992 – 20 September 1992
Exhibition: Documenta IX
1993
Represents the United States at the Venice Biennale
In 1993 Bourgeois represented the United States at the 45th Venice Biennale; the American pavilion showed “Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work”.
1993
Left out of a survey of American art
In 1993 the Royal Academy of Arts staged a comprehensive survey of twentieth-century American art, but its organisers did not consider Bourgeois’s work important enough to include. The survey was criticised for many omissions, and very few women were included.
1994
“The Locus of Memory” in Brooklyn and Washington
In 1994 the exhibition “Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982–1993” was shown at the Brooklyn Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and in 1995 at the Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague.
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