
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 831/I, variant 3
The Three Graces
- State/Variant:
- State I of II, variant
- Date:
- 1998-2002
- Themes:
- Nature
- Techniques:
- Aquatint
- Description:
- Aquatint, with blue, white, and red gouache, pencil, red, blue, and black ink, and white correction fluid additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 22 × 29 3/4" (55.9 × 75.6 cm); sheet: 27 1/4 × 34 1/4" (69.2 × 87 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 3 known variant impressions of state I
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition at any state.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices:
The progression of this composition, as seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, included 2 plates.
Plate 1: overall composition; in drypoint and engraving.
Plate 2: background; in aquatint.
Print State Changes:
Plate 2, printed in brown. - Curatorial Remarks:
- The type of paper could not be documented because this impression is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The dimensions were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY