Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)

'[Louise Bourgeois's] work is by turns aggressive and pathetic, sexually charged and physically awkward, tense and shapeless. It employs an imagery of encounter to render concrete an almost inescapable sense of solitude. In short, it is physically, if not always formally, rich stuff.' (R. Hughes in Nothing if Not Critical , London 1990, pp. 285-286).