Transatlantique - Louise Bourgeois travelling and despair

and despair

He had been convinced to do so by a duplicitous Napoleon III

Lauded for her spare prose

As Warhol himself would have answered: Yes

Transatlantique - Louise Bourgeois travelling and despairA truly Transatlantique figure, Louise Bourgeois (1911 2010), born in Paris, spends most of her life in New York City where she moves in 1938, eventually taking American citizenship. A sculptor and plastician of considerable talent with a polymorphous practice, she is recognized and celebrated far earlier in the United States than in France. Marie Laure Bernadac, a leading expert in Bourgeoiss work, invites nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic