Louise Bourgeois
was born in Paris on Christmas Day, 1911
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Louise liked her art to tell stories through drawing and painting. However, her sculptures are famous including those she called
cells.
These were large sculptures filled with objects she had collected over the years.
Spider, 1997, steel, tapestry, wood, glass, fabric, rubber, silver, gold and bone, dimensions variable
As a young girl, she enjoyed being in her parents’ busy
tapestry studio
helping with dyeing cloth, weaving and sewing.
She loved spiders and
made hundreds of drawings and sculptures of them throughout her career.
She described the spider as an artist as it could spin thread and make intricate webs.
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