Cat. No. 124/X
Hair
- State/Variant:
- State X of XIII
- Date:
- 1999
- Descriptive Title:
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Red Bell Jar
- Themes:
- Body Parts, Figures, Objects
- Techniques:
- Drypoint, Engraving, Other
- Description:
- Drypoint, engraving, and blue monotype, with red ink and pencil additions
- Support:
- Smooth, wove Hahnemühle paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 7 15/16 x 5 1/4" (20.1 x 13.4 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 1/8" (40 x 28.3 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state X
- 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 IX in drypoint: figure's hair further delineated vertically.
Changes from state IX by burnishing: errant vertical line under staircase removed.
Additions in red ink: knob on bell jar-like form filled in; lines reinforced overall.
Additions with pencil: shading on platform floor on right and left, anticipating state XI. - 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:
- 834.2008
© 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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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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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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