Torsos

The works included in this series are amongst the most emotionally poignant of Emin’s production and speak to Emin’s love for the nude female body, also evident in her Nude Drawings and Nude Self-Portraits. Emin’s interest in the torso, however, has a history of its own. It derives, to the artist’s acknowledgement, from her admiration for the works of Louise Bourgeois.

A pioneer of the women’s art movement who engaged with Surrealism as well as the then-developing reconceptualisation of sculpture in the early 1960s, Bourgeois has been an inspiration to many. Her works deal quite explicitly with sex, the female and male nude, motherhood, masochism, violence and death, and were highly informed by the psychoanalytic writings of Melanie Klein. Similarly to Emin’s drawings, many of Bourgeois sketches and watercolours have a distinctively unfinished quality to them. Bourgeois’ explicit depiction of the female body in all of its materiality, her women with full breasts and round buttocks, appealed to Emin and inspired her in her own drawings. Bringing together Egon Schiele with Louise Bourgeois, the nude torsos represent a true testament to Emin’s artistic receptiveness, which makes her works even more art historically relevant.

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