The bronze casts outside the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The bronze casts outside the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum.

Maman (1999)^[1] is a sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which resembles a spider, is over 30ft high, with a sac containing marble eggs. Besides the stainless steel version owned by the Tate Modern, London,^[2] there are several bronze casts, located at:

• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
• Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
• Samsung Museum of Modern Art (Leeum), Seoul
• Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
• Havana, Cuba^[3]
• Hirshhorn Museum Washington, D.C.

• Pappajohn Sculpture Park Des Moines, Iowa

The sculpture is no longer in London, Paris, Boston Or Washington, D.C.

[edit] References

1. ^ Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Bourgeois - Maman
2. ^ Previously on long-term loan, it was acquired in 2008: Tate acquires Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider, Maman
3. ^ CBC.ca Arts - National Gallery erects $3.2M spider sculpture

[edit] External links

• Images and locations (Google Earth/Google Maps) of Maman around the World.

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