Louise Bourgeois: A Life in Photos
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Slow Rise
A sculpture called Seven in Bed, 2001. Sexuality is a major theme in Bourgeois' work. While she began exhibiting her work in the 1940s, she did not achieve fame as an artist until the 1970s.
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