Maman is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide. It includes a sac containing 32 marble eggs and its abdomen and thorax are made of ribbed bronze.
The title is the familiar French word for Mother. The sculpture was created in 1999 by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series, in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern. This original was created in steel, with an edition of six subsequent castings in bronze.Bourgeois chose the Modern Art Foundry to cast the sculpture because of its reputation and work.
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