Untitled

Louise Bourgeois

1995

A drypoint print with hand additions in which Louise Bourgeois compresses a simplified, upward-tilted head and an exposed, accordion-like throat to probe bodily vulnerability, memory, and emotional pain.

Struck by spare, scratchy blue lines and a central stacked-throat motif that reads like vertebrae, the image feels at once anatomical, childlike, and unsettlingly intimate.

From her late-career prints, this work shows how Bourgeois translated sculptural, psychological concerns into paper — turning medical imagery into a concise, autobiographical vocabulary that expanded how prints could express trauma and memory.

Palette

Art Terms

Drypoint Intaglio Print Figurative Investigating identity Drawing Monochrome

Exhibitions

Louise Bourgeois

1982

Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Siècle Prints

1979

Committed to Print

1988

Dubuffet: Works on Paper

1986