Getting reacquainted with Louis Bourgeouis through drawings

Louise Bourgeois in her home on West 20th Street, New York, 2000.
Photo: © Jean-François Jaussaud
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Courtesy The Easton Foundation and Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth joins the worldwide museums and galleries, going online with inaugural exhibition of Louis Bourgeois drawings.

‘Drawings are thought feathers, they are ideas that I seize in mid-flight and put down on paper’—the iconic 20th century artist Louis Bourgeois used to say. For an artist with a prolific seven-decade career, drawings, perhaps, were a more intimate, unapologetically raw practice. A daily ritual to record and exorcise Bourgeois memories and emotions, separate from her sculpture practice. Hauser & Wirth now brings directly to screens of worldwide audience a selection of drawings by the celebrated artist that offer a glimpse into Bourgeois’s inner psyche, an opportunity to reacquaint with the artist.