Cat. No. 501
Untitled
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 1997-1999
- Alternate Title:
-
Champfleurette
- Descriptive Title:
-
Cat with Raised Head
- Themes:
- Animals & Insects
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint
- Support:
- Slightly textured, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 11/16 x 11 3/4" (29.7 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 15 9/16 x 15 9/16" (39.5 x 39.6 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 2 known impressions of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition at any state.
- Background:
- This composition was considered for inclusion in the 1999 illustrated book and portfolio, "Metamorfosis" but was ultimately excluded from publication.
In the 1950s, when Bourgeois was living with her husband and children in an apartment on 18th Street in New York City, the family had two cats: Champfleurette and Tyger. - MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 732.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY