Palm Springs Art MuseumFound Objects

Louise Bourgeois, Give or Take III

1993

Made in bronze with gold and brown patina, this artwork can be seen as a surreal sculptural forearm. Bourgeois’s career was marked by her experimental engagement with material and form, across painting, sculpture and large-scale installation. Whether done in bronze, latex, or cloth, Bourgeois’s oeuvre reveals a fundamental interest in memory and the figurative. “The material itself,” she said, “does not interest me as such. It is a means; it is not the end.”

Hecha en bronce con pátina dorada y café, esta obra de arte puede verse como un antebrazo escultórico surrealista. La carrera de Bourgeois estuvo marcada por su compromiso experimental con el material y la forma, a través de la pintura, la escultura y la instalación a gran escala. Ya sea en bronce, látex o tela, la obra de Bourgeois revela un interés fundamental por la memoria y lo figurativo. “El material en sí”, dijo, “no me interesa como tal. Es un medio; no es el fin”.

Louise Bourgeois, American, born France, 1911‑2010 Give or Take III, 1993 bronze with gold and brown patina, edition 23/25 Gift of Donna J. MacMillan 2022.26