Untitled, c. 1954 - 59, contains all the requisite elements of what had become by 1948 a set form: isolated sections delineated like irregular puzzle pieces, in this instance offset by
an abstracted totemic figure.
Not exact matches
«The look of my
figures is
abstract, and to the spectator they may not appear to be
figures at all,» Bourgeois said of her «Personages» series of stacked,
totemic structures created between 1946 and 1955.
Her driftwood assemblage sculptures, mostly small sized
totemic abstract figures sometimes wall mounted, are probably better known than her paintings.