LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Body Parts, Spirals

Techniques:

Etching

Description:

panel (a): Soft ground etching, with red pencil additions
panel (b): Soft ground etching, with red ink, red pencil, and pencil additions
panel (c): Soft ground etching, with black pencil additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper (3 sheets), mounted on smooth, wove board

Dimensions:

plate (a and c) (each): 9 13/16 × 7 7/16" (25 × 18.9 cm); plate (b): 9 13/16 × 8 7/16" (25 × 21.4 cm); sheet (overall): 16 9/16 × 28 7/8" (42.1 × 73.3 cm)

Signature:

"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.

Publisher:

Osiris, New York

Printer:

Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Edition:

3

Impression:

"Study 1/3 / MOMA" verso, lower middle sheet, red pencil, artist's hand (?).

Edition Information:

The hand additions vary from impression to impression. For comparison, see the other impression in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.

In this edition, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.)

The plate seen in panels (a) and (c) was also included in the illustrated book "Hang On" and in the edition "The Lost Girl." They can both be seen in Related Works in the Catalogue below.

State Changes and Additions:

Matrices:
The plate seen in panels (a) and (c) is arranged in a different orientation for each panel.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

708.2006

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY