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Spiral Woman
Spiral Woman

Spiral Woman

Artist Louise Bourgeois American, born France, 1911–2010
Date1984
MediumBronze figure and slate disk
Dimensions(Figure): 14 x 4 x 5 in. (35.6 x 10.2 x 12.7 cm)
Diam. (Disk): 34 1/2in. (87.6cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Lucy Daniels
Object number2017.11.1
On View
On view
ProvenanceWith Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY; sold to Lucy Daniels, Raleigh, NC, 1994; given to NCMA, 2017.
Published ReferencesHuston Paschal, Sacred and Fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois (exhibition brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art 1998), illus. cover and 21, no. 13.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Sacred and Fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois,” March 8–May 31, 1998.

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