Louise Bourgeois - II

Louise Bourgeois
Cell (Three White Marble Spheres)
1993
assemblage of steel, glass, marble and mirror
Saint Louis Art Museum

 

Louise Bourgeois
Paris Review
1994
aquatint, drypoint and stencils
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Louise Bourgeois
Triptych for the Red Room - I
1994
aquatint, drypoint and engraving
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Louise Bourgeois
Triptych for the Red Room - II
1994
aquatint, drypoint and engraving
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Louise Bourgeois
Triptych for the Red Room - III
1994
aquatint, drypoint and engraving
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Louise Bourgeois
Spider
1995
drypoint
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Louise Bourgeois
The View from the Bottom of the Well
1996
drypoint and aquatint
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Louise Bourgeois
Untitled
1996
textile fabric, stuffing, wood, glass
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Louise Bourgeois
Quilting
1999
textile fabric and stuffing
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Louise Bourgeois
Untitled
2001
textile fabric, stuffing, aluminum
Roberts Institute of Art, London

Louise Bourgeois
Hairy Spider
2001
drypoint
Brooklyn Museum

Louise Bourgeois
Spider Woman
2005
drypoint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Louise Bourgeois
Untitled
2006
hand-colored drypoint
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
2008
photogravure
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Louise Bourgeois
Looking for the Mother
2009-10
digital dye-print on textile fabric
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Louise Bourgeois
Reaching for You
2009-10-
digital dye-print on textile fabric
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from October

The brightness of the day becomes 

the brightness of the night;

the fire becomes the mirror. 

My friend the earth is bitter; I think

sunlight has failed her.

Bitter or weary, it is hard to say.

Between herself and the sun,

something has ended.

She wants, now, to be left alone;

I think we must give up

turning to her for affirmation.

Above the fields,

above the roofs of the village houses,

the brilliance that made all life possible

becomes the cold stars.

Lie still and watch:

they give nothing but ask nothing.

From within the earth's

bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness

my friend the moon rises:

she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?

– Louise Glück (2006)