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Double sided page produced as part of a special art insert from a well respected art publication

LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010), CulturalTies, No No No This is New, Never worn. This woven silk and cotton tie is an embroidery (jaquard tapestry weave) signed 'Louise Bourgeois' verso. from the limited edition of 300. there is no certificate. Made in Italy. The tie measures 4" at its widest point. Bourgeois returned to "No" as the inspiration for a number of different projects. "No (1)" was developed as the artist's contribution to Cultural Ties, a series of artist-designed necktie multiples benefiting UNICEF. Bourgeois's necktie design reproduces "No (1)" in red and blue, with the artist's signature embroidered in red thread on the lining. Artists such as the Chapman Brothers, Jeff Koons and Louise Bourgeois have each come up with a unique design for a necktie, and these have been produced in a limited-edition of 300 by Versace's tie-maker." Louise Joséphine Bourgeois, French 1911 – 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement. In a class Fernand Leger saw her work and told her she was a sculptor, not a painter. Bourgeois graduated from the Sorbonne 1935. She began studying art in Paris, first at the École des Beaux-Arts and École du Louvre, and after 1932 in the independent academies of Montparnasse and Montmartre such as Académie Colarossi, Académie Ranson, Académie Julian, Académie de la Grande Chaumière and with André Lhote, Fernand Léger, Paul Colin and Cassandre. Bourgeois briefly opened a print store beside her father's tapestry workshop. Her father helped her on the grounds that she had entered into a commerce-driven profession. Bourgeois met her husband Robert Goldwater, an American art historian noted for his pioneering work in the field then referred to as primitive art, in 1938 at Bourgeois's print store. Goldwater had visited the store to purchase a selection of prints by Pablo Picasso, and "in between talks about surrealism and the latest trends, got married." They emigrated to New York City the same year, where Goldwater resumed his career as professor of the arts at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, while Bourgeois attended the Art Students League of New York, studying painting under Vaclav Vytlacil, and also producing sculptures and prints. In 1954, Bourgeois joined the American Abstract Artists Group, with several contemporaries, among them Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt. At this time she also befriended the artists Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Jackson Pollock. As part of the American Abstract Artists Group, Bourgeois made the transition from wood and upright structures to marble, plaster and bronze as she investigated concerns like fear, vulnerability and loss of control. This transition was a turning point. In 1973, Bourgeois started teaching at the Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, Brooklyn College and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. From 1974 until 1977, Bourgeois worked at the School of Visual Arts in New York where she taught printmaking and sculpture. Bourgeois received her first retrospective in 1982, by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2000 her works were selected to be shown at the opening of the Tate Modern in London. In 2001, she showed at the Hermitage Museum. Bourgeois’s printmaking flourished during the early and late phases of her career: in the 1930s and 1940s, when she first came to New York from Paris, and then again starting in the 1980s, when her work began to receive wide recognition. Early on, she made prints at home on a small press, or at the renowned workshop Atelier 17. In 1990, Bourgeois decided to donate the complete archive of her printed work to The Museum of Modern Art. In 2013, The Museum launched the online catalogue raisonné, "Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books." Exhibitions 1947 – Persistent Antagonism at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. 1949 – Untitled at Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. 1967 – Untitled at National Academy of Design, New York City. 1972 – Number Seventy-Two at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 1982 – Louise Bourgeois, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 1982 – Eyes, marble sculpture, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. 1984 – Nature Study: Eyes at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. 1992 – Sainte Sebastienne at Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. 1993 – Loiuse Bourgeois: Recent Work at U.S. Pavilion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. 1993 – Helping Hands in permanent display at Chicago Women's Park & Gardens as of 2011, Chicago. 1994 – The Prints of Louise Bourgeois at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 1994 – The Nest at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. 1994 – Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993 at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn and The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1995 – Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993 at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague. 1997 – Maman at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. 1999 – Maman at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao. 2000 – Fallen Woman at Galleria d'arte moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona. 2007 – Maman at Tate Modern, London. 2008 – Louise Bourgeois at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Exhibition date: 5 March 2008 - 2 June 2008. 2008 – Louise Bourgeois Full Career Retrospective at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. 2008 – Nature Study, at Inverleith House, Edinburgh. 2008 – Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte, at National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples. 2009 – Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eugénie Grandet, un processus d'identification, at Maison de Balzac, Paris. 2010 – Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, at Fondazione Vedova, Venice. Travelling to Hauser & Wirth, London. 2011 – Louise Bourgeois: À L’Infini, at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Exhibition date: 3 Sep 2011 - 8 Jan 2012. 2011 – Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed, at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires.Travelling to Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro. 2011 – Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Exhibition date: 21 Apr 2011 - 18 Mar 2012. 2012 – Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious at the Qatar Museums Authority Gallery, Katara, Doha, Qatar, Exhibition date: 20 Jan 2012 - 1 Jun 2012. 2012 – Louise Bourgeois: The Return of The Repressed at Freud Museum, Exhibition date: 7 March 2012 - 27 May 2012. 2013 – Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010 at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Exhibition date: 22 June 2013 - 11 Aug 2013. 2014 – Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Exhibition date: 18 Jul 2014 - 12 Oct 2014. 2015 – ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Southampton City Art Gallery, Exhibition date: 16 Jan 2015 - 18 April 2015. 2015 – Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: the Cells at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, Exhibition date: 27 Feb 2015 - 2 Aug 2015. 2015 – Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back...