Fugue

2003
Louise Bourgeois

Suite of 19 screenprints with lithography on music paper, colophon page, in portfolio
Chaque cadre 30,5 x 40,6 cm

A portfolio of 19 colour screen-prints. These began as pencil and ink drawings by Louise Bourgeois on music paper, which were subsequently published as portfolios (9 copies).

Circles, squares, lines and words spread across the staves to form a musical score.

The title Fugue refers to the repetition and modification of the drawings, as well as the way in which they interlock with one another.

Crédit artiste : © The Easton Foundation / Adagp, Paris 2020 Crédit photographique : © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Marc Domage

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From 23 September 2020 to 3 January 2021

Born in France, Louise Bourgeois emigrated to the United States in 1938 with the American art historian Robert Goldwater whom she had just married. Throughout her life, the artist drew inspiration from her own life—difficult relationship with her father, nostalgia for her native land, hysteria, fear, etc.—for the psychological and emotional themes of her works.

Her belated recognition (retrospective at MoMa in 1982) had a stimulating effect on her work, which continues to influence artists today.

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