Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) French. Charcoal on Paper. Measure 24"in H x 18"in W and 29 1/2"in H x 21 1/4"in W with frame. While Louise Bourgeois childhood was tumultuous, moving country to country while her father served in the military, her artistic studies tremendously benefited from this experience. She was primarily raised in Paris and as a result of good fortune she studied post-cubist art with Amedee Ozenfant and Ferdinand Leger in the early 1930's. In spite of her artistic career not taking hold until after her move to New York City, marriage and the raising of her children, she is considered one of the first female modernists. Although she has created a prolific body of work including paintings, drawings, and prints, it was sculpture which gave her the most promising recognition. Her work expresses the juxtaposition between simplicity and complexity. Bourgeois works through her medium developing and exploring the human form: its relationship and its language. From the New York School Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists catalogue (2000), Bourgeois said the following: "I think a work is 'finished' when I have nothing to eliminate. I make constructions which are usually vertical; when I start them, they are full of colors and complicated in form. Every one of the complications goes and the color becomes uniform and finally they become completely white and simple. Yet I am disgusted by simplicity. So I look for a larger form and another work- which goes through the same process of elimination." It is precisely this simplistic form which envelopes Bourgeois work while also expressing and wrestling with more complicated issues. Bourgeois works are in numerous museums around the world including the Albright-Knox Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Hisrchorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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