An unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise Bourgeois's early

years in New York that laid the groundwork for her sculptural practice

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) is celebrated today for her sculptures.

Less known are the paintings she produced between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to three-dimensional media in 1949.

Crucial to her artistic practice, these early works—the focus of

this groundbreaking publication—show how Bourgeois evolved her deeply personal

artistic lexicon, and how the themes and motifs she explored in her paintings coalesced into symbols of her sculptural practice. Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial language, adding a key element to our understanding of this crucial artist's career.

本书少有地审视了路易斯·布尔乔亚（Louise Bourgeois）早年在纽约的鲜为人知的绘画作品，这些作品为她的雕塑实践奠定了基础。

路易斯·布尔乔亚（1911-2010）今天因其雕塑作品而闻名于世。鲜为人知的是她在1938年抵达纽约和1949年转向三维媒体期间创作的绘画作品。这些早期作品对她的艺术实践至关重要，也是这本开创性出版物的重点，展示了布尔乔亚是如何演化出她深刻的个人艺术词汇，以及她在绘画中探索的主题和图案是如何凝聚成她雕塑实践的符号的。在新的档案研究和艺术家的大量日记的启发下，本书探讨了布尔乔亚与1940年代纽约艺术界的关系以及她独特的绘画语言的发展，为我们了解这位重要艺术家的职业生涯增添了一个关键因素。