About The Work
Topiary: Amputee with Peg Leg evokes a recurring theme in the work of Louise Bourgeois, reflecting the artist's personal experiences—a tribute to her sister Henriette, who was afflicted with a stiff leg, and early memories of amputees from World War I. The “peg leg” or missing leg motif has come to represent these recollections in a number of works. In this etching from 1998, Bourgeois renders a headless, armless figure in simple drawn lines and a smudge of color—the title a reference to topiary shrubbery.
Printmaking was an important part of Bourgeois' practice beginning in the 1940s, when she worked at William Stanley Hayter's intaglio workshop, Atelier 1. From 1994-95, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted an exhibition entitled The Prints of Louise Bourgeois.
About Louise Bourgeois
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Copperplate etching with aquatint
39.00 x 28.00 in
99.1 x 71.1 cm
Signed and numbered
About The Work
Topiary: Amputee with Peg Leg evokes a recurring theme in the work of Louise Bourgeois, reflecting the artist's personal experiences—a tribute to her sister Henriette, who was afflicted with a stiff leg, and early memories of amputees from World War I. The “peg leg” or missing leg motif has come to represent these recollections in a number of works. In this etching from 1998, Bourgeois renders a headless, armless figure in simple drawn lines and a smudge of color—the title a reference to topiary shrubbery.
Printmaking was an important part of Bourgeois' practice beginning in the 1940s, when she worked at William Stanley Hayter's intaglio workshop, Atelier 1. From 1994-95, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted an exhibition entitled The Prints of Louise Bourgeois.
About Louise Bourgeois
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Seol Kwon ‘My earliest creations were female faces, my way of trying to manifest a reflection of myself not visible in the world around me’
- Interviews & Features: Art & Style For Home - The best Artspace design objects for your tabletop
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Art for Life Interview with Adam Clayton
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Mothers
- Art 101: "What I'd Buy This November '19": Artspace's Advisor Shares the Artworks in Her Cart
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