Cat. No. 124/IV
Hair
- State/Variant:
- State IV of XIII
- Date:
- 1999
- Descriptive Title:
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Red Bell Jar
- Themes:
- Body Parts, Figures, Objects
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint, with pencil additions
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 7 7/8 x 5 5/16" (20 x 13.5 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 1/2" (30 x 21.6 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state IV
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of state XIII.
The 4 impressions of varying states labeled "HC" in red ink, in the artist's hand, are not conventional H.C. impressions, which would be of the final state. - State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state III in drypoint: figure further delineated, with legs lengthened.
Additions in pencil: platform further delineated; railing reconfigured at upper right, anticipating state V; interior oval on platform floor reinforced, anticipating state VI; platform extended, anticipating state VII; figure's hair further delineated, anticipating state X; platform base shaded in. - Other Remarks:
- According to Louise Bourgeois’s assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, the bell jar-like form in “Hair” was not done in conjunction with Bourgeois’s monumental sculptural installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, in 2000. In that installation, each of three huge steel towers included, within it, a small sculpture depicting a mother and child inside a bell jar. Bourgeois’s print “Do Not Abandon Me,” with similar imagery and seen here in Related Works in the Catalogue, does have a direct relationship to the Tate installation.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 827.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Hair
1999-2000
States
State I of XIII
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State II of XIII
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State III of XIII
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State IV of XIII
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State V of XIII
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State VI of XIII, variant
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State VI of XIII, variant
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State VII of XIII
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State VIII of XIII
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State IX of XIII
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State X of XIII
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State XI of XIII
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State XII of XIII
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1999
State XIII of XIII, variant
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1999
State XIII of XIII, variant
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1999
State XIII of XIII, variant
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1999
Published
State XIII of XIII
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2000
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
State XIII of XIII
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Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
State XIII of XIII
2000
2000
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