Louise Bourgeois

work again because it is so beautiful.

Next, we're going to be talking about Louise Bourgeois.

And if you are an old misinformation listener, you know that I've talked about Louise Bourgeois before at length and ad nauseum.

I think Louise Bourgeois was an incredible person and an incredible artist.

She was French-American, born in 1911.

She's best known for her really large-scale sculpture and installation art.

On the contrary, what's often really needed is an infusion of resources, material and emotional, to make it possible for a mother and child to remain together, as is natural and what my own mother wanted.

So Louise Bourgeois says, tell your own story and you will be interesting.

So let's see.

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It's usually the story behind it.

Like Louise Bourgeois is one that I have such a soft spot for, especially her poetry.

But yeah.

Yes, I really love her work with the house on like top of her figures.

It might be, um, I don't know, seeing a flower represented.

There's that, there's that famous artist, is it Louise Bourgeois, who paints these huge flowers.

Um, you know, and they're, they're amazing.

So it might be that you saw flowers represented somewhere.

So I'll just let you, I'll leave that for a moment.

You can see Louise Bourgeois' wonderful spider work called Mother on the left-hand side of the frame.

So I'm just gonna leave this here for a moment so that you can kind of catch your brain up to where we are.

Now we're talking about this idea of signature in terms of character.

So for me, it didn't really, mm- Uh, the penny didn't drop really that he was from New Zealand or a local artist.

I was just looking at a book of, you know, Louise Bourgeois or, you know, Rodin, Brancusi.

I, I just thought he was, inverted commas, a great artist.

So the sort of geography or timing didn't really mean anything to me.

Cookday Gallery sold an abstract work by Yoo Young-kook for around $1.7 million to a North American museum board member.

and Hausernwerth moved a Louise Bourgeois bronze for around $600,000.

The real draw, though, was Dohosa.

A blockbuster survey of his work at Seoul's National Museum sent collectors flocking to the artist's pieces across the fair, with several booths selling out early.

Can you talk a little bit more about the impact of her mental health problems on the art that she made?

Like a lot of well-known artists, I think of Louise Bourgeois, who's an artist who kind of overlapped with Kusama in the 1960s.

Her mental experience, psychological experiences, were a very, very important driver of the work.

I do

And they appear around the letters, but it's also like moment.

Oh, Louise Bourgeois.

Isn't she an Italian artist? I don't know.

I don't know what we're talking about.