NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1265, in 1257
Untitled, no. 3 of 3, from the series, Evening of My Life
- State/Variant:
- Unique variant
- Date:
- 2007
- Series:
- Evening of My Life (View All)
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Nature
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- panel (a): Soft ground etching, with hand additions
panel (b): Pencil
panel (c): Soft ground etching, with hand additions
panel (d): Pencil
panel (e): Soft ground etching, with hand additions - Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate (a and e) (each): 55 1/2 × 9 13/16" (141 × 25 cm); plate (c): 55 3/16 × 9 13/16" (140.2 × 25 cm); sheet (approx.): 60 × 79" (152.4 × 200.7 cm)
- Signature:
- panel (e): "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Inscription:
- panel (b): "moist / afternoon" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
panel (d): "evening / of / my / life" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand. - Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- Unique
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices:
This 5-panel composition is made up of 2 plates that were issued as separate editions. They are noted below and can be seen in Related Works in the Catalogue.
panel (a) and (e): plate from "Leaves"
panel (c): plate from "Up and Up" - Background:
- Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
- Installation Remarks:
- This composition is one of 3 that constitute a single work of art. All of the compositions are to be exhibited together in the indicated sequence.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The hand additions and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The plate dimensions are from impressions in MoMA's Collection. The overall mediums and sheet dimensions for the series were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
No. 3 of 3, from the series, Evening of My Life
2007
Unique Variants
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Unique variant
2007
2007
Series
2007
Louise Bourgeois,
Evening of My Life,
New York, Osiris, 2007Bourgeois's entire text for this series appears on the panels cited below.
No. 1:
echo of the morning
the return of the light
No. 2:
The leaves tremble
but
the roots are deep
and strong
No. 3:
moist
afternoon
evening
of
my
life
