Louise Bourgeois

Name: Louise Bourgeois
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ISBN: 9783908247395

The Insomnia Drawings

Marie-Laure Bernadac, Elisabeth Bronfen, Elisabeth Bronfen , Stephan Schmidheiny

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Scalo
02 February 2026

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Drawing & drawings; Individual artists, art monographs

Bourgeois' thought-provoking collection of more than 200 works, produced during sleepless nights, provides inimitable insight into her psyche.

Insomnia was a lifelong companion of Louise Bourgeois's nights. Between November 1994 and June 1995, she committed to paper the thoughts, memories, and images that surfaced during these sleepless hours. The resultant 220 drawings represent the quintessence of the impulses, sources, and motifs that inspired Bourgeois's work. Originally published in 2001 by Daros and Scalo, the two-volume set of The Insomnia Drawings is newly available courtesy of The Easton Foundation and Hauser & Wirth Publishers. In Volume I, both sides of each drawing are faithfully reproduced at a 95% scale; Bourgeois composed mostly visual imagery on the drawings' fronts, and inscribed the backs with poetic writings, aphorisms, and various notes related to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Volume II features essays by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Elisabeth Bronfen, alongside a chronology and checklist of works, including full transcriptions of Bourgeois's writings, which were written in French and English. At once beautiful and disquieting, humorous and passionate, The Insomnia Drawings are a unique mirror of an extraordinary artist's life and work.

A portion of the proceeds from Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings will support The Easton Foundation and its ongoing work to preserve and promote the artist's legacy.

By: Elisabeth Bronfen
Text by: Marie-Laure Bernadac, Elisabeth Bronfen
Preface by: Stephan Schmidheiny
Imprint: Scalo
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: Special Limited ed.
Dimensions: Height: 330mm, Width: 260mm, Spine: 66mm
Weight: 4.400kg
ISBN: 9783908247395
ISBN 10: 390824739X
Pages: 580
Publication Date: 02 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marie-Laure Bernadac has worked as a curator at the Musée Picasso (Paris), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the CAPC - Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Louvre from 2003 to 2013. Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich as well as Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.

Reviews for Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings

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