Femme Maison

The Femme Maison (1946–47) series of paintings by French American artist Louise Bourgeois address the question of female identity.

[3] It is also important to note that Bourgeois uses her own personal history along with the issues in femininity, psychoanalysis and communication to create Femme Maison.

[5] The most familiar work from this series was used for the cover of critic Lucy Lippard's influential 1976 collection of feminist essays on art, From The Center.

[1] The image of the female nude with the head of a home is also present in the film The Skin I Live In by director Pedro Almodóvar, who develops a relationship between the main character, Vera, and the works of Louise Bourgeois.

The ideas involved in the Femme Maison paintings were also translated into sculptural forms, in a range of abstraction and figuration using steel and fabric as well as marble, up through 2001.