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Monday June 7, 2010 | by Kim Harty

In Memoriam: Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010)
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Louise Bourgeois, the influential and prolific sculptor who worked frequently with glass as a medium, died last Monday, May 31st, in Manhattan. She was 98. Born on Dec 15th, 1911 in Paris, she was the second of three children to Louis and Josephine Bourgeois. Much of her work was inspired her emotionally conflicted family life growing up. She famously stated “My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.” She had great affection for her mother, and saw her as a pillar of strength, and anguish and disdain for her father, who carried on a 10-year affair with their live-in tutor. After attending various art schools in Paris. in 1938 she married Robert Goldwater, an art historian, and migrated to New York. Although Bourgeois’s art career spanned her entire adulthood, she wasn’t widely recognized for her work until she was in her her seventies. Among her hundreds of awards and honors, in 1996 she received the First Annual Urban Glass Award for Innovative use of Glass by a Non-Glass Artist.

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