In Untitled (Red Flower Woman), Louise Bourgeois fuses figure and symbol into a single, pulsing form: part flower, part body, part wound. Rendered in bleeding red watercolor, the image evokes both fertility and rupture—a central burst at the crown suggests bloom, while below, limbs and visceral smears hint at gestation or trauma. The figure appears childlike in outline but carries the weight of something older, mythic.
Bourgeois often used red as a language of flesh, memory, and maternal complexity. Here, the line between self and other—mother and child, bloom and blood—is porous, unstable. What emerges is not a woman, not a flower, but a force: elemental, unresolved, alive. Signed simply “LB,” the work channels her late style: raw, direct, and seething with psychic density.
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