Louise BourgeoisAmerican, 1911–2010Man Reading
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 10 days ago
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- The museum's own collection data
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- Accession number
- 238.1992.2
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- The Museum of Modern Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 10 days ago
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Meanwhile, in the life of Louise Bourgeois
The whole life1936–1938 · Education
Beaux-Arts de Paris
1937–1938 · Education
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
1938 · Education
Académie Julian
1938–1939
Moves to New York with her husband
With her husband, who taught at New York University, Bourgeois moved to the United States and settled in New York City. There she continued her education at the Art Students League under Vaclav Vytlacil while also producing sculptures and prints.
1940s
A turn to sculpture under the influence of the Surrealists
In the 1940s Bourgeois concentrated on sculpture, and she was strongly influenced by the influx of European Surrealist artists who emigrated to the United States after the Second World War. At first her sculptures consisted of groups of abstract, organic forms, often carved from wood.
1945
First solo exhibition
Bourgeois’s first solo show took place in 1945, but despite it she received very little attention from the art world.
