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Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

Paris, France, 1911 - 2010, Manhattan, New York
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BiographyLouise Bourgeois (French pronunciation: [luiz bu??wa]; born in Paris, December 25, 1911) is an artist and sculptor. Her parents repaired tapestries. At 12, she started helping them draw the missing segments of the tapestries. At 15 she studied mathematics at the Sorbonne. Her studies of geometry contributed to her early cubist drawings. Still searching, she began painting, studying at the École du Louvre and then the École des Beaux-Arts, and worked as an assistant to Fernand Léger. In 1938 she moved with her American husband, Robert Goldwater, to New York City to continue her studies at the Art Students League of New York, feeling that she would not have stayed an artist had she continued to live in Paris. [1]
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