Louise Bourgeois Gets Ready To Ditch the Canvas
Bourgeois is widely acclaimed as one of the vital sculptors of the 20th century, and her life of nearly a century resulted in a rich body of work. Her paintings can seem amateur by comparison, yet they also deliver clues about what is to come.

“Louise Bourgeois: Paintings,” which opened this week at the Metropolitan Museum, profiles an artist en route to her final vocation. Encompassing the years between 1938 and 1949 to a scale not seen in four decades, this exhibit demonstrates that artists do not spring forth fully formed. Their genius often requires gestation. Like a Silicon Valley founder, artists need to iterate before they triumph.
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