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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Mortise
Louise Bourgeois (sculptor)
French-American, born France, 1911 - 2010
Mortise, 1950
painted wood
overall: 152.4 x 45.7 x 38.1 cm (60 x 18 x 15 in.)
Gift of the Collectors Committee
1992.102.2
On View
From the Collectors Committee Gifts
Object 28 of 55

Exhibition History

1982
Bourgeois Truth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1982, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1984
Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1984-1985, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (followed by tour to three other venues; not yet known if Mortise traveled).
1989
Louis Bourgeois: Works from the 50s, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, 1989.
1989
Louise Bourgeois, Frankfurter Kunstverien; Städliche Galerie, Lenbachhaus, Munich; Riverside Studios, London; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Kröller-Müller Mus., Otterlo, 1989-1991, no. 19, repro.
1994
Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1994, no. 29, repro.
2007
Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2007-2009, no. 210.

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