Ascension Lente incorporates innovative techniques encouraged at Atelier 17, a communal printmaking workshop Bourgeois frequented in the late 1940s. The embossed white areas are the result of gouging out the metal printing plate; the color is applied with stencils.
Gallery label from Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, Sept. 24, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018.
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State/variant
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State XII of XIV
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Medium
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Engraving, with scorper, and hand additions
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Dimensions
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plate: 8 3/4 × 6 7/8" (22.2 × 17.5 cm); sheet: 13 1/16 × 10" (33.2 × 25.4 cm)
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Publisher
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unpublished
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Printer
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The artist at Atelier 17, New York
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Edition
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2 known impressions of state XII
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Impresssion
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Not numbered
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Credit
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Gift of the artist
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Object number
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90.1994
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Copyright
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© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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Department
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Drawings and Prints