Louise Bourgeois Plate 8 of 9, from the illustrated book He Disappeared into Complete Silence, first edition (Example 1) 1947
- State/variant
- Version 3 of 5, state XII of XII
- Author
- Text byLouise Bourgeois; Introduction by Marius Bewley
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 7/8 x 4 15/16" (17.5 x 12.6 cm); page: 9 13/16 x 6 7/8" (25 x 17.5 cm)
- Publisher
- Louise Bourgeois
- Printer
- The artist atAtelier 17, New York
- Edition
- 54 announced (44 numbered: 1-15 with color additions; 10 H.C. lettered A-J) (See Edition Information)
- Impresssion
- “24” lower center colophon, black ink, artist’s hand. (See Edition Information-IMPRESSION NUMBERS)
- Credit
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
- Object number
- 313.1947.8
- Copyright
- © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
- Illustrated book
- He Disappeared into Complete Silence, first edition (Example 1)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- This work is part of an illustrated book with 8 other works online.
- Louise Bourgeois has 3,049 works online.
- There are 10,452 illustrated books online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being identified by MoMA staff.
If you notice an error, please contact us at [email protected].
If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).
MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.
If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].
This record is a work in progress. If you have additional information or spotted an error, please send feedback to [email protected].