The major exhibition of Louise Bourgeois' work at the Pompidou Centre, organized in association with the Tate gallery , London, brings together nearly 200 works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints) from 1938 to 2007. In Galerie 2, a chronological journey allows us to discover Louis Bourgeois' major works while leaving a large place her creations of  the last ten years, she who at the age of more than 95 still unceasingly renews her artistic language.
In parallel, on the fourth floor of the museum, the Galerie des Arts Graphiques proposes "Tendres Compulsions", a more intimate exhibition, conceived in the manner of a curiosity cabinet that allows us to understand the deep link that exists between her different means of expression, and also to discover her latest works on paper, highly characteristic of her "late style".
A room devoted to the confrontation between drawings and sculptures puts a perspective on the themes of the woman-home, of maternity, the spider, the female-knife, of the woman-bed, of the couple, all dear to the artist. A previously unshown body of works on paper can also be seen, works such as "Extrême Tension" (2007) that associates prints overworked by the artist's hand and also written texts on the theme of the body, "Ode à la Bièvre" (2002), a book composed of a patchwork of materials with abstract motifs, and "10 am is when you come" (2007), a group of engravings reworked with red gouache. Louise Bourgeois continues to write texts of an autobiographical and poetic nature on all the different supports at her disposal, such as the book of musical partitions upon which she draws her memories of Paris : "Paris toujours Paris".

This exhibition is an essential complement to the retrospective show, and allows us to enter into the laboratory of creation, into the subconscious mechanisms of the artist, with these tender impulses that give rise to works that are highly charged emotionally.

Louise Bourgeois is one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century. Long confidential, her work has been the object of international recognition since 1982, date at which the MOMA in New York put on a retrospective show of her work. Shown in France in 1986 at the galerie Lelong, in Paris, then in Lyon in 1989, her work was the object of several exhibitions in Paris in 1995: at the Pompidou Centre, in the galerie d'art graphique ("Pensées-Plumes, the drawings of Louise Bourgeois") and at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Louise Bourgeois has been shown in major international exhibitions since the 90s, notably at the Venise Biennnale, Golden Lion, in 1999, and at the Documenta, Kassel, Germany.