Louise Josephine Bourgeois died yesterday, May 31st, in New York. She was 98.

The French American artist, Louise Bourgeois was one of the most famous French artists in the world. She died died on Monday, May 31, at the Beth Israel Medical Centre in Manhattan.

Especially well known for her giant spiders, represent the mother figure, Louise Bourgeois is famous for her work on birth, death and sexuality. Working with all sorts of materials, the artist has built a surprisingly autobiographical work that exudes a striking symbolism and a great suffering.

Born in Paris in 1911 studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and moved to United States in 1938. Married with the American art historian, Robert Goldwater, who died in 1973, she had the French-American dual nationality.

Her works, unique and unclassifiable, gained fame only late in a long career, thanks to the retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art de New York in 1982 and her participation at the Venice Biennale in 1993. In France, the musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presented an exhibition in 1995 and the Pompidou Centre in 2008. Currently, the Precious Liquids sculpture, belonging to the Musée national d’Art moderne is presented at the Pompidou Centre Metz, for the Chefs d’œuvre ? exhibition.

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