Frieze 91 are delighted to welcome you to this exclusive Private Tour of The Easton Foundation. The Easton Foundation aims to cultivate new interpretations of Louise Bourgeois's work while providing a deeper understanding of her artistic process and creative milieu. It oversees the Louise Bourgeois Archive, a study center and residency for curators and scholars, as well as a small sculpture garden, an exhibition space, and Bourgeois’s distinctive home and studio.
Bourgeois and her husband, the art historian Robert Goldwater, purchased their Chelsea townhouse in 1962. Upon Goldwater’s death in 1973, Bourgeois rearranged the home’s domestic spaces and expanded her practice, transforming the house into a studio. It is here that Bourgeois realized many of her sculptures, drawings, gouache paintings, and prints, as well as conceived of large-scale projects and commissions. Bourgeois also held her renowned Sunday salons in the space, during which artists, writers and curators would share work for discussion.
The Louise Bourgeois Archive holds more than a century’s worth of personal papers, family photographs, exhibition announcements, and diaries, all of which offer unique insight to Bourgeois’s artistic motivations. Her interest in psychoanalysis, her experimentation with material and form, and her physical and emotional reactions to those around her were extensively detailed, and trace the trajectory her exceptional career.