LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Figures, Motherhood & Family

Techniques:

Etching

Description:

panel (a): Soft ground etching, with pencil, white and pink gouache, and red pencil additions
panel (b): Soft ground etching, with red pencil, pencil, and white and pink gouache additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper (2 sheets), mounted on smooth, wove board

Dimensions:

plate (a): 8 1/4 × 9 3/4" (21 × 24.7 cm); plate (b): 8 1/4 × 9 13/16" (21 × 25 cm); sheet (overall): 12 13/16 × 24 13/16" (32.5 × 63 cm)

Signature:

"Louise Bourgeois" right lower margin, pencil.

Publisher:

Osiris, New York

Printer:

Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Edition:

6

Impression:

Verso: "Study 6/6" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.

Edition Information:

The number of panels and the hand additions on each impression vary throughout the edition of "Seated Woman." For comparison, see the Evolving Composition Diagram below.

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

There is 1 known cancellation proof with a large "X" drawn across the composition from each corner of the plate.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

713.2006

This Work in Other Collections:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY