Stamp of Memories I
Louise Bourgeois American
Printer Harlan & Weaver, Inc. American
Publisher Peter Blum Edition
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Much of Bourgeois's large body of work was generated by her personal experience and emotional life, though it tends to be oblique, rather than narrative, in expression. Here she recast Saint Sebastian as a mature, voluptuous woman—perhaps Bourgeois herself—with three eggs nestled atop her head meant to represent her three sons. Bourgeois used her father's metal stamp, which contains his initials in fanciful script, to fill in the outline of the curvaceous figure. She would later print another version of the same image incorporating the block letters of her own stamp instead of her father's.
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