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Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

September 9th - December 31st, 2022

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    Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings produced by the iconic French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to sculpture in the late 1940s.

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Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings produced by the iconic French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to sculpture in the late 1940s. While Bourgeois is best known today as a sculptor, it is in this early body of work—created in the decade spanning World War II—that her artistic voice emerged, establishing a core group of visual motifs that she would continue to explore and develop over the course of her celebrated, decades-long career. Informed by new archival research, the exhibition sheds light on a little-known chapter in the artist’s practice.


Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation, Tim L. Fields, and Harvey and Marie Orth, and Aimee and Michael Siegel.

The Runaway Girl

ca. 1938

Louise Bourgeois

Oil, charcoal, and pencil on canvas

24 x 15 inches; 61 x 38.1 cm

Collection of The Easton Foundation, New York. Photo by Christopher Burke. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Louise Bourgeois in the studio of her apartment at 142 East 18th Street (detail)

ca. 1946

Unknown artist

Gelatin silver print

Collection Louise Bourgeois Archive, The Easton Foundation. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY

Untitled

1946–47

Louise Bourgeois

Oil on canvas

26 x 44 inches; 66 x 111.8 cm

ARTIST ROOMS, Tate and National Galleries of Scotland, Lent by the Artist Rooms Foundation 2018. Photo by Christopher Burke. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Femme-Maison

1946–47

Louise Bourgeois

Oil and ink on linen

36 x 14 inches; 92 x 36 cm

Private Collection, New York. Photo by Christopher Burke. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Fallen Woman (Femme Maison)

1946–47

Louise Bourgeois

Oil on linen

18 1/2 x 40 ½ inches; 47 x 103 cm

Private Collection, New York. Photo by Christopher Burke. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Video: Curator Clare Davies on Louise Bourgeois

In conjunction with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a special lecture with Clare Davies, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Read More

Video: People Museum in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum presents a special performance in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois. Read More

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings Opens at NOMA on September 9

Opening next month at NOMA, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first in-depth presentation of paintings by the celebrated artist. Recognized as one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois was also a prolific painter at the beginning of her career. Read More

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