LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Faces & Portraits, Spirals

Techniques:

Etching

Description:

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

Support:

Smooth, wove Arches paper (3 sheets), mounted on smooth, wove, handmade Dieu Donné paper

Dimensions:

plate (a and c) (each): 9 15/16 × 7 1/2" (25.2 × 19 cm); plate (b): 9 15/16 × 8 7/16" (25.2 × 21.5 cm); sheet (overall): 15 9/16 × 28 1/16" (39.5 × 71.2 cm)

Signature:

"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.

Publisher:

Osiris, New York

Printer:

Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Edition:

3

Impression:

"Study 1/3 / MOMA" lower center sheet verso, red pencil, unknown hand.

Edition Information:

The hand additions vary from impression to impression. For comparison, see other impressions 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 used in the illustrated book "Hang On" and in the edition "Around We Go." 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:

710.2006

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY