Cat. No. 760/IV
Rain Falling on Water
- State/Variant:
- State IV of XI
- Date:
- 2002
- Themes:
- Nature
- Techniques:
- Drypoint, Engraving
- Description:
- Drypoint and engraving, with red ink and red colored pencil additions
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 7 7/8 × 9 13/16" (20 × 25 cm); sheet: 10 9/16 × 12 13/16" (26.8 × 32.5 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" right lower margin, red ink.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state IV
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition at any state.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices:
The progression of this composition, as seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, involved 2 matrices.
Plate 1: arrows, moon in upper right composition, and horizon line; printed in red or black.
Plate 2: slightly thicker arrows overlaying original arrows in plate 1; printed in black.
State Changes:
Plate 1, printed in black.
Changes from state III, by burnishing: remaining marks from earlier burnishing removed. - Artist’s Remarks:
- Inscribed on the verso of the source drawing: "il pleut sur la route comme il pleut dans mon coeur. Charles Baudelaire."
In fact, the poem referenced was authored by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), not Charles Baudelaire. - MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1478.2012
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