First London show for sculptor, aged 97

An artist aged 97 whose sculptures of spiders were the first works to be seen in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is to get her first major London exhibition.

Louise Bourgeois will be honoured with a show spanning the seven decades of her career at Tate Modern in the autumn.

The artist was born in Paris and studied under Fernand Léger before moving to America in 1938, where she joined the French expatriate community that included Joan Miró and Marcel Duchamp.

Her influential work has reflected many movements, from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism.

Frances Morris, the Tate's curator, said Bourgeois was a workaholic but was "delighted" to be receiving recognition.

"She has been an incredibly important role model, particularly for women artists in the Seventies. We tend to categorise things in neat 'isms' but she doesn't fall neatly into categories."

Louise Bourgeois is at Tate Modern from 11 October to 20 January.