Louise Bourgeois

Le Regard (The Look)

Maker

Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911-2010

Title

Le Regard (The Look)

Year

2003

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

80 x 120.3 cm (31 1/2 x 47 3/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Paula and Leonard Granoff in honor of Jan Howard

Object Number

2014.104.3

Type

Exhibition History

On Paper
Gifts from Paula and Leonard Granoff
Oct 29, 2022 – Apr 16, 2023

Label copy

This pink circle with smaller concentric circles may call to mind a breast, although the work’s title, The Look, also suggests an eye or pupil. Abstracted body parts, particularly referencing breasts and eyes, recur throughout Louise Bourgeois’s work. The act of looking, being seen, or consciously not seeing are frequent themes. She stated, “Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” Another work by Bourgeois, Still Life, is in the gallery across the glass bridge, as part of Art and Design from 1900 to Now.

–Jan Howard, Houghton P. Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs


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Tombstone

Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911-2010
b. Paris)
Le Regard (The Look), 2003
Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on paper, mounted on aluminum
80 x 120.3 cm (31 1/2 x 47 3/8 inches)
Gift of Paula and Leonard Granoff in honor of Jan Howard 2014.104.3

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