
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1242
Hommage à Miro (#4)
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2009
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "Homage to Miro"
- Themes:
- Abstraction
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with watercolor and gouache additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 15 3/4 × 9 7/8" (40 × 25.1 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" right lower margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- The plate for this composition was also used in combination with the plate for "Hommage à Miro (#1)," seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue. Those plates together form the two compositions noted below and also seen in Related Works in the Catalogue.
"Hommage à Miro (#3)"
"Hommage à Miro (#5) - Background:
- Bourgeois befriended artist Joan Miró in 1947 through her participation at Atelier 17, the communal print workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, and transferred from Paris to New York during the war years.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The plate size and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY