Louise BourgeoisAmerican, 1911–2010To Hide
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New York, United States
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- 541.1993
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- The Museum of Modern Art
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Meanwhile, in the life of Louise Bourgeois
The whole life1938–2010 · Workplace
New York City
1980s
Returns to printmaking in her seventies
Bourgeois returned to printmaking after a long hiatus, in her seventies, encouraged first by print publishers: she set up her old press, added a second and worked with printers who came to her house. Over her life she created approximately 1,500 printed compositions.
1990
The death of her son Michel
In 1990 Bourgeois’s first son, Michel, died.
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”.
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.
