Louise Bourgeois Portrait

Louise Bourgeois
2019
graphite, ink and gouache on paper
7 x 10 inches plus frame
 
What migrant studied mathematics when she was young in her native Paris, then became a sculptor in order to conjure away the sorrow caused by her mother's death?

LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Paris, France - New York, USA

One of a series of 50 illustrations portraying migrants who changed the world for the book for young readers entitled Vidas sin fronteras: 51 historias para derribar los muros by Yaiza Santos and Annuska Angulo (Alfaguara, 2019).