Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is one of the best-known living women artists today. She was born in Paris in 1911 and trained with Léger in France before settling in New York when she married the American art historian Robert Goldwater in 1938. A abstract sculptor, she first worked with wood constructions painted black or white and then worked in different materials such as stone, metal or latex. She became one of the leading American contemporary sculptors and if her work is abstract it is often suggestive of the human figure.