© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Pillar
Artist
Louise Bourgeois
(USA, 1911 - 2010)
Alternate Title
- Pelare
Date1949
MediumMålat trä (balsaträ), rostfritt stål
Dimensions165,5 x 30,8 x 30,8 cm
ClassificationSculptures
Credit LinePurchase 2007 (The Second Museum of Our Wishes)
Countries
Object NumberMOM/2007/65
CollectionsThe Second Museum of Our Wishes
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkWhen Louise Bourgeois gave up painting in the late 1940s, she began making shuttle-like wood sculptures. To her, they represented the friends she had left behind in Paris in 1938, when she moved to New York due to the impending war. The family’s apartment was crowded, but there was room on the roof terrace to create larger formats. The "Personages" series, to which this work belongs, is often shown without plinths, like individuals in various constellations. Bourgeois was fascinated by how people relate to themselves and others. Her works create psychological spaces with a highly-charged presence. The surrealist fascination for ritual and so-called primitivism is tangible in "Pillar".
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Blue is the Colour of your Eyes (den 2 februari 2019 - den 26 januari 2020) Moderna Museet Malmö Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Blue is the Colour of your Eyes (den 2 februari 2019 - den 26 januari 2020) Moderna Museet Malmö Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Det andra önskemuseet : [Moderna Museet]