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Les fleurs - Louise Bourgeois Valiz A larger-than-life figure in theLouise Bourgeois (1911 Paris 2010 New York) grew up near Paris, where her parents ran a business restoring tapestries. Her childhood was marked by a complicated relationship to her father, who cheated on Bourgeois' mother with the British nanny. This traumatic experience haunted her throughout her life and was the major source of inspiration for her art. After pursuing studies in mathematics, Bourgeois attended a number of art schools in Paris. In