LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Abstraction, Faces & Portraits, Figures

Techniques:

Aquatint, Etching

Description:

Etching and aquatint, with black ink additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 8 3/8 x 5 3/8" (21.2 x 13.6 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/8" (38 x 28.2 cm)

Signature:

Not signed

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Gravure, New York

Edition:

2 known impressions of version 1

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Not issued as a published edition in either version.

Background:

The source drawing was inspired by a sculpture, "Woman with a Secret," 1947-49, seen below in Related Works in Other Mediums.

Bourgeois admired the printing facilities of the Gravure workshop and also felt a personal rapport with the owner and master printer, Christian Guérin. Guérin helped the artist develop plates for several important projects in the early 1990s.

Artist’s Remarks:

Inscribed on the verso of the source drawing: "destroyed / and / resuciteé / She wolf [crossed out] fox. / the test is: / am I forgiven after / the destruction / la defense du père / le pardon du la mère / c'est le sign du / l'adulte / college sevigné. / to J.G."

Former Cat. No.:

W & S B13.1

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

563.1993

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY