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Louise Bourgeois

M is for Mother, 1998

Not on View

Medium

pen and red ink with red colored pencil and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 22.9 x 29.8 cm (9 x 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2008.72.1

Artists / Makers

Louise Bourgeois (artist) American, born France, 1911 - 2010

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Inscription

lower right in red colored pencil: LB

Provenance

(Cheim & Read, New York); Dian Woodner, New York; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Cheim & Read

Exhibition History

2002: Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculptures and Drawings, Beaumontpublic Luxembuourg, 2002-2003.

2005: Louise Bourgeois: Back and Forth, Kunthalle Wien, Vienna, 2005-2006.

2006: Louise Bourgeois: La Famille, Kunshalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, 2006.

2007: Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 2007-2009.

2015: Louise Bourgeois: No Exit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015 - 2016, unnumbered catalogue.

2016: Louise Bourgeois: No Exit. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 (no cat.).

Bibliography

2005: Weiemair, Peter. Louis Bourgeois: Back and Forth. Exh. cat., Vienna Kunsthalle, Austria, 2005: 147, repro.

2008: Bernadac, Marie-Laure., et al. Louise Bourgeois. Exh. cat. Tate, London; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Musuem of Contmeporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2007-2009. Paris, 2008.

2008: Morris, Francis., et al. Louise Bourgeois. Exh. cat. Tate, London; Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Musuem of Contmeporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2007-2009. London, 2007.

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