LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Architecture, Figures, Motherhood & Family, Music

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint, with chine collé, and pink and blue watercolor, blue gouache, and red ink additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper, with music paper chine collé

Dimensions:

plate: 11 15/16 x 9 15/16" (30.3 x 25.2 cm); sheet: 16 1/2 x 14 1/16" (42 x 35.7 cm)

Signature:

"LB" lower right margin, red ink.

Inscription:

"AP" lower left margin, red ink, artist's hand.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

1 known impression of version 1, state I

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Proof before the editioning of version 2, state III.

Curatorial Remarks:

Bourgeois wrote "AP" in the location where an Artist's Proof would usually be designated. However, this impression is not a conventional Artist's Proof, which would be of the published state.

Publisher Harlan & Weaver groups the editioned state of this composition on paper with ten other drypoints of 1999, under the title, “11 Drypoints.” Each of the 11 compositions can be displayed individually. The full set is as follows:
“The Accident”
“The Angry Cat”
“Don’t Put Your Foot in Your Mouth”
“Fear”
“Feet (Socks)”
“Fences Are Obsolete”
“Madeleine”
“Mosquito”
“Mother and Child”
“Please Hang in There”
“The Smell of the Feet”

Bibliography:

Malbert, Roger, and Juliet Mitchell. "Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints." London: Hayward, 2016. (Catalogue accompanying the touring exhibition "Louise Bourgeois Prints: Autobiographical Series and 11 Drypoints".)

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

919.2008

This Work in Other Collections:

The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY