
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 746
Waiting for News
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- c. 1940
- Alternate Title:
-
Head in Hands
- Themes:
- Faces & Portraits, Figures
- Techniques:
- Lithography
- Description:
- Lithograph
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- composition: 8 13/16 × 12" (22.4 × 30.5 cm); sheet: 11 1/2 × 16" (29.2 × 40.6 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB." lower right margin, pencil.
- Inscription:
- "Printed by Will Barnet" lower middle margin, pencil, unknown hand.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- The Art Students League of New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition.
- Background:
- American painter and prinktmaker, Will Barnet (1911-2012) was the master printer at The Art Students League and printed Bourgeois's lithographs.
- Artist’s Remarks:
- In response to this print, Bourgeois remarked: "This is the same mood of despair that recurs again and again." (Quote cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 52)
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The alternate title, "Head in Hands," comes from the brochure checklist of a 1992 exhibition at the Susan Teller Gallery, New York, titled, "Printed by Will Barnet."
The title "Waiting for News" was given by the artist in 1993 on the occasion of the publication of "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois" (cited above). The inscription in the unknown hand in the lower middle margin was not on the impression at that time. - Former Cat. No.:
- W & S 14
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY