Louise Bourgeois
Untitled, 1998
- Medium
- Felt-tip pen, ink and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 20 x 24.3 cm
Joseph Clark Collection · JCC-0055
About the work
Felt-tip pen, ink and graphite meet in this intimate drawing from 1998. Their different qualities allow line and density to shift across the paper, giving the act of drawing a varied physical presence. Drawing remained a constant within Louise Bourgeois’s changing practice, offering a space in which memory, relationships and bodily experience could take forms distinct from her sculpture.
About the artist
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a French-born American artist whose work encompassed sculpture, drawing, printmaking, painting and textiles. Born in Paris into a family involved in tapestry restoration, she moved to New York in 1938. Memories of childhood, family relationships and experiences of anxiety and attachment became recurring sources for her work.
Bourgeois continually changed materials and scale, from intimate drawings to architectural installations and monumental spiders. Organic forms and repeated motifs allowed personal experience to become a language that remained open to others. Her long career received increasing international recognition, including the inaugural Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern in 2000. Drawing remained a persistent part of her practice across these developments.