Bourgeois was best known for her giant metallic spider sculptures
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01-Jun-2010

Louise Bourgeois, who has died in New York at the age of 98, was one of the world's most important and influential contemporary artists.

Yet it was not until the French-born, American-based sculptor was 70 years old that her work became known to the wider art world.

That recognition came when the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a solo show of her career in 1982.

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