LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Abstraction, Figures

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint, with pink and blue watercolor, red crayon, and red and black ink additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 9 15/16 x 11 7/8" (25.2 x 30.1 cm); sheet: 13 x 15 3/8" (33 x 39 cm)

Signature:

"LB" lower right margin, red ink.

Inscription:

"AP" lower left margin, pencil, artist's hand. Verso: "Please: hang in there 1999" center sheet, red colored pencil, artist's hand.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

1 known impression of state II

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Proof before the editioning of state IV.

The "AP" inscription, in the artist's hand, does not indicate a conventional A.P. impression, which would be of the final state.

State Changes and Additions:

Changes from state I, in drypoint: composition reinforced overall.

Curatorial Remarks:

Publisher Harlan & Weaver groups the editioned state of this composition 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:

928.2008

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY