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Louise Bourgeois was a 20th-century American american artist. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.”
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