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Louise Bourgeois: No Exit

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, c. 1939-1940, crayon, ink, and graphite, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Tony Podesta. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, La tapisserie de mon enfance—montains in Aubusson (Tapestry of My Childhood—Mountains in Aubusson), 1947, brush and ink with gouache, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II), 2015. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, He Disappeared into Complete Silence, plate 4, 1947, engraving with drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner, 2010. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, He Disappeared into Complete Silence, plate 7, 1947, engraving with drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner, 2010. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, He Disappeared into Complete Silence, plate 8, 1947, engraving with drypoint, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner, 2010. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, Mortise, 1950, painted wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1992. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1950, brush and ink, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Dian Woodner. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, Germinal, 1967, marble, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Dian Woodner. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, the puritan, 1990, hand-colored engraving on handmade paper with chine collé in bound volume, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, 2009. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, Paris Review, 1994, aquatint and drypoint with additions in white gouache, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Carolyn Kaplan, 2007. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, My Hand, 1997, pen and ink, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Promised Gift of Dian Woodner. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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Louise Bourgeois, M is for Mother, 1998, pen and ink with colored pencil and graphite, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Dian Woodner, 2008. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, NY

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