Louise Bourgeois, one of the most influential sculptors
of the twentieth century, died in May 2010 at
age 98. In the last year of her life, she invited the
Dutch artist Alex Van Gelder to stay at her New
York townhouse and photograph her. Of the hundreds
of images that Van Gelder took, it is those
depicting her hands that are the most astonishing.
This beautiful clothbound publication presents 20
of Van Gelder’s portraits of Bourgeois’s hands.