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Louise Bourgeois

Still Life, 1963

Now On View

Description

Maker

Title

Still Life

Year

1963

Medium

Wood, plaster, and paint

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

29.8 x 50.2 x 48.3 cm (11 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 19 inches)

Type

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

66.163

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

The bowl of fruit and loaves of bread in this work suggestively evoke human anatomical forms, a recurring motif--and often a source of sly humor--in Bourgeois's later career. The rough surface textures and basic black and white palette emphasize the artist's choice to present this still-life as a three-dimensional sculpture, rather than in the more conventional form of a painting. Still Life reflects Bourgeois's pivotal role in combining abstract and representational sensibilities in art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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