Maman (sculpture)

Maman (1999) is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois.

The sculpture was created in 1999 by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series (2000), in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern.

[2] Bourgeois chose the Modern Art Foundry to cast the sculpture because of its reputation and work.

[5] Her mother, Josephine, was a woman who repaired tapestries in her father's textile restoration workshop in Paris.

A few days after her mother's passing, in front of her father (who did not seem to take his daughter's despair seriously), Louise threw herself into the Bièvre River; he swam to her rescue.

The original 1999 stainless steel Spider at the Tate Modern in 2009