Adieu LouBou
May 31st, 2010
Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women’s deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died Monday, her studio’s managing director said.
Bourgeois had continued creating artwork — her latest pieces were finished just last week — before suffering a heart attack Saturday night, said the studio director, Wendy Williams.
Great obit from Adrian Seale
He salutes her dirty mind and tender heart …
Her art was one of transformations, of ferocious vulnerability and tender violence.
died on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 98.
The death was reported by Wendy Williams, the managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
Louise Bourgeois archive since 2004 here
