In the collection of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation are several early figurative
objects by Françoise. While figurative art was not in keeping with the prevailing modernist art of the early nineteen seventies, for Françoise it was a way of giving concrete form to her ideas on life and on encapsulation and freedom. The circle, which she described as the 'basic form of life', was the starting point for these objects. They can be seen as personal expressions about her own growth and development. She did not enjoy showing these in public, but saved them for her own collection or gave them to her family. They give another impression of Françoise, as a young woman who struggled with her aristocratic background and her fear of being patronised because of her epilepsy. She had to fight for her independence and was also a passionate maker of things, who could become quite furious with herself if her work was not going right. Despite their figurative aspect, these private objects, with their alternating spherical and concave forms and handling of the material, still bear an affinity to her 'official' abstract work.
In July 1977 Françoise died unexpectedly aged thirty-three, at her house in Amsterdam. At the time she was preparing for a retrospective at the Van Reekummuseum, Apeldoorn. In 1978 and 1979 her show travelled to nine art centres in the Netherlands, starting with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
The archive of Françoise van den Bosch is preserved at the
RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) in The Hague.