LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Nature

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

4 drypoints, with blue watercolor additions

Support:

Smooth, wove Arches paper in various shades, mounted on Dieu donne paper

Dimensions:

plate (a, b, c, d) (each): 11 13/16 × 9 15/16" (30 × 25.3 cm); sheet (a, b, c, d) (each): 11 7/8 × 10 1/16" (30.2 × 25.5 cm); mount: 19 3/8 × 50 1/8" (49.2 × 127.3 cm)

Signature:

"Louise Bourgeois." lower right to right lower margin, pencil.

Inscription:

"Spring" left lower margin, pencil, artist's hand.

Publisher:

Osiris, New York

Printer:

Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Edition:

5

Impression:

"Study 3/5" verso, lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.

Edition Information:

This edition is unique in that the color of the paper and the hand additions vary slightly from impression to impression, and from panel to panel.

There is 1 known variant impression of the only state, outside the edition.

Outside the "Spring" edition, there is a diptych composition which combines this plate with the plate editioned as “The Underground Life of Fear.” The diptych was published as part of an illustrated book. In the illustrated book edition, each book includes 18 plates with hand additions. Both the dyptich composition and “The Underground Life of Fear” can be seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

720.2006

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY