This composition appeared on the cover of The Paris Review. Two versions—one color, one balck and white—were created to benefit that literary publication. Artists often choose printmaking when asked to donate a work to help an organization or a cause, since many examples can be made and sold for proceeds. Bourgeois contributed such prints to a range of humanitarian efforts, political issues, and arts organizations.

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Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, Sept. 24, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018.

State variant State VIII of VIII
Medium Aquatint and drypoint, with hand additions
Dimensions plate: 31 13/16 x 23 5/8" (80.8 x 60 cm); sheet: 36 13/16 x 28 1/16" (93.5 x 71.2 cm)
Publisher The Paris Review, New York
Printer Harlan & Weaver, New York
Edition 35
Impression "AP 10/10" lower left margin, pencil, unknown hand.
Credit Gift of the artist
Object number 541.1994.1
Department Drawings and Prints

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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

American, born France. 1911–2010 3040 works online

Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois was raised by parents who ran a tapestry restoration business. A gifted student, she also helped out in the workshop by drawing missing elements in the scenes depicted on the tapestries.

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