Although the Paris-born artist Louise Bourgeois is best known for her monumental sculptures of spiders and her intimately scaled works in bronze, stone, and wood, Bourgeois, who died in 2010, was also ...
The portrait of Louise Bourgeois that emerges from The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is of an artist who’s waited a long time for recognition, but is in no way ready to rest on her laurels.