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The Audacious Life of Louise Bourgeois
A couple of years ago, I bought a framed poster of an etching by Louise Bourgeois featuring the words BE CALM in huge letters. I hung it in my hallway, a major thoroughfare at home, with the hope that the message would sink in. (It didn’t.) But I’m sure Ms. Bourgeois, who died this week at 98, could relate…
“The subject of pain is the business I am in,” she said. “To give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.”
Louise Bourgeois was the first woman to have a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. This 1982 photo of her clutching her piece Fillette, was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe for the catalogue.
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