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- Birth nameLouise Joséphine Bourgeois
- Louise Bourgeois was born on December 25, 1911 in Paris, France. She was married to Robert Goldwater. She died on May 31, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseRobert Goldwater(1937 - March 26, 1973) (his death, 3 children)
- She worked in steel, stone, wood, and cast rubber. She was little-known to the art world until she was 70.
- She is a sculptor.
- She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1997 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.
- Her works have been shown in the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim in New York, and the Tate Gallery in London.
- She studied math at the Sorbonne, and art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Louvre.
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