One of the world’s most influential contemporary artists, sculptor Louise Bourgeois died at the age of 98. She died on Monday two days after suffering a heart attack. French-born U.S. sculptor died at Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York.
She was born in 1911 on the Christmas Day and showed her keen interest in art at the age of eleven. She started her work at her home town but after her marriage her husband introduced her to the power players of Manhattan’s art scene.
Managing Director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio, Wendy Williams confirmed the news of her death. She gained so much fame for her unique work and included almost all material to make an outstanding sculpture. Louise Bourgeois was famous for the giant spider sculptures. These giant spider sculptures included many huge sculptures and some of them were three storey high.
In 2007, a bronze version of Maman was made by Louise Bourgeois and she named it “an ode to my mother.”
Most of her work is at Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington but Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also has collections of her unique work. She worked on almost all the expressions of life and emotions including violence, sex, depression, body, motherhood and marriage. She was so much inspired by her mother. Louise Bourgeois worked for almost seven decades and throughout her career, her work was under influence of her mother Josephine. A documentary film Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine, was also made in 2008 which covered her life and work.