![]() īourgeois graduated from the Sorbonne in 1935. Bourgeois took a job as a docent, leading tours at the Musée du Louvre. In one such class, Fernand Léger saw her work and told her she was a sculptor, not a painter. She continued to study art by joining classes where translators were needed for English-speaking students, especially because translators were not charged tuition. Her mother's death inspired her to abandon mathematics and to begin studying art. Her mother died in 1932, while Bourgeois was studying mathematics. In 1930, Bourgeois entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics and geometry, subjects that she valued for their stability, saying "I got peace of mind, only through the study of rules nobody could change." ![]() The lower part of the tapestries were always damaged which was usually a result of the characters' feet and animals' paws. A few years after her birth, her family moved out of Paris and set up a workshop for tapestry restoration below their apartment in Choisy-le-Roi, for which Bourgeois filled in the designs where they had become worn. ![]() Her parents owned a gallery that dealt primarily in antique tapestries. She was the middle child of three born to parents Joséphine Fauriaux and Louis Bourgeois. Sculpture by Bourgeois in the Domestic Incidents group exhibit at London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 2006 Early life īourgeois was born on 25 December 1911 in Paris, France. ![]()
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