Eyes 1995

Resting directly on the ground a calculated distance from each other, the two eyes occupy considerable volumes of space between and around them which the viewer is invited to fill in with his or her own imagination, since the eyes are separated from any suggested surrounding physiognomy. Carved in granite, the pupils are not inset but suggested by large polished nodules and an integral part of the whole granite "eyeball."

Louise Bourgeois was a French-American sculptor and artist. After moving to New York City in the late 1940s, she took up sculpture as her primary form of expression. She is most famously known for her colossal Spider sculptures, which evoke the bitterness and betrayal she felt as a child as a result of her father's affair with her tutor. These sculptures made Bourgeois the highest paid woman artist at the time of their auctions at Christie's in 2006, 2008, and 2011.

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