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Human nature

The first-ever showing of new drawings by Louise Bourgeois is a coup for Edinburgh�s Inverleith House. By Catriona Black

ONE day at the dinner table, when Louise Bourgeois was a child, she kneaded her bread into a model of her father and ate it limb by limb. Even now at 96 years old, she is channelling her childhood pain into new sculptures, drawings, prints and paintings.