Born in France in 1911, and working in America from 1938 until her death in 2010, Louise Bourgeois is recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Bourgeois’s creative process was fueled by an introspective reality, often rooted in cathartic re-visitations of early childhood trauma and frank examinations of female sexuality. Articulated by recurrent motifs (including body parts, houses and spiders), personal symbolism and psychological release, the conceptual and stylistic complexity of Bourgeois’s oeuvre – employing a variety of genres, media and materials – plays upon the powers of association, memory, fantasy, and fear. This sculpture beautifully exemplifies the tactility and intimacy of Bourgeois’s sculptural work with bronze, and editions of this piece have been on view at prestigious institutions around the world such as the Tate Modern in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Rodin Museum in Paris.