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Feb 18, 2021 · CNN — Louise Bourgeois’s spiders, towering and delicate, are located around the world, from Kansas City to Seoul. The largest sculpture in the series, “Maman” – French for mother – stands...
Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide (927 x 891 x 1024 cm).
- 9271 x 8915 x 10236 mm
- 1999
- Stainless steel, bronze, marble
- Louise Bourgeois
Spider is a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. It was executed in 1996 as an edition of a series entitled Cells and cast in 1997; bronze with a silver nitrate patina, with the first of the edition being steel. The spider itself is made of bronze, whereas the cage is made of steel.
- 440 cm × 670 cm × 520 cm (175 in × 262 in × 204 in)
- Louise Bourgeois
- 1996
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
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Mar 18, 2022 · Louise Bourgeois’s huge spider artwork, “Maman” (1999), casts a profound cognitive and emotional shadow as if it were a creature from a nightmare or a larger-than-life reflection of a deep childhood horror.
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- 31 May 2010
- 25 December 1911
- French-American
Sep 26, 2022 · Bourgeois has said, “The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.” We can see this strand of thought in Bourgeois’ largest spider sculpture, made in 1999, which she titled Maman. The sculpture towers thirty-foot high overhead, while carefully carrying a series of eggs ...
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May 19, 2020 · Bourgeois started crafting her famed steel spider sculptures in the 1990s. The artist had previously experimented with arachnid forms in two ink and charcoal drawings made in 1947, but her...
Artwork Details. Overview. Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. Title: Spider Woman. Artist: Louise Bourgeois (American, Paris 1911–2010 New York) Publisher: Harlan & Weaver, Inc. (American) Printer: Harlan & Weaver, Inc. (American) Date: 2005. Medium: Drypoint.
