At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering – the father saying something, the mother choosing to defend herself. To es… - Louise Bourgeois

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At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering – the father saying something, the mother choosing to defend herself. To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread – sometimes it was still warm – I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

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About Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist and sculptor.

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Alternative Names: Louise Goldwater Louise Joséphine Bourgeois
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