LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Descriptive Title:

English translation: "The Reparation"

Themes:

Animals & Insects, Nature, Spirals

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint

Support:

Slightly textured, wove Hahnemühle paper

Dimensions:

plate: 12 x 6" (30.5 x 15.2 cm); sheet: 17 x 15" (43.2 x 38.1 cm)

Signature:

"Louise Bourgeois 2003" lower right margin, pencil.

Publisher:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

35; plus 7 A.P., 5 P.P., 2 H.C., 1 B.A.T.

Impression:

"a.p. 6/7" lower left margin, pencil, unknown hand.

Edition Information:

There is 1 known variant impression of the only state, outside the edition.

Artist’s Remarks:

"The skeins of wool are a friendly refuge, like a web or a cocoon. The caterpillar gets the silk from his mouth, builds his cocoon and when it is completed he dies. The cocoon has exhausted the animal. I am the cocoon. I have no ego. I am my work." (Quote cited in Meyer-Thoss, Christiane. "Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Freel Fall." Zurich: Ammann Verlag, 1992, p. 197.)

Installation Remarks:

The prints in this portfolio can be shown as a group or individually. There is no required sequence.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

543.2005.6

This Work in Other Collections:

Tate Modern, London

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY