Untitled (Study for Sainte Sébastienne)

1938–2010 · 工作地

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.

1992年6月13日–1992年9月20日

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.