Poster: Louise Bourgeois, The Couple

Discover Louise Bourgeois’s poster of the work The Couple.

Louise Bourgeois lived to the age of 98. For a long time she worked out of the limelight; it was not until 1982 that she came to the attention of a wider international art audience, through a solo exhibition at MoMA in New York. She was 70 at the time. Two years later she said in an interview: “I want to really disturb people, to embarrass people.” Her inspiration came from Surrealism, automatism in particular. In parallel, she developed a personal iconography derived from her childhood in France.

Specifications:

• Size: 70 x 100 cm
• Exhibition: Poster from the exhibition Louise Bourgeois, shown at Moderna Museet Stockholm 14/2–17/5 2015.
• Item no.: UT191

Photo: Christopher Burke.
© The Easton Foundation/BUS/VAGA, New York 2014.