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Hammond's Ice cube cuff and Necklace were recently featured in a Vogue Magazine's tribute article to renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre. In 1938, she emigrated to the US and continued her studies in New York. By the 1940s she had turned her attention to sculptural work, for which she is now recognized as a twentieth-century leader. Bourgeois’s early sculpture was composed of abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. By the 1960s she began to work in rubber, bronze, and stone, and the pieces themselves became larger, more referential to what has become the dominant theme of her work—her childhood. Her work uses her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life to understand and remake that history. The shapes her pieces take—the female and male bodies are continually referenced and remade—are charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. Bourgeois’s work are in major museums around the world. She lives in New York. Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled "Maman" one of which which now stands outside Tate Modern in London..
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