NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1241
Hommage à Miro (#5)
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2008
- Descriptive Title:
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English translation: "Homage to Miro"
- Themes:
- Abstraction
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 13 3/8 × 6 5/8" (34 × 16.8 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" right lower margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 3 known impressions of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- The hand additions on this composition vary from impression to impression; the titles vary by number. For comparison, see the other examples in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
The plate for this composition was also used in combination with the plate for "Hommage à Miro (#4)" to create "Hommage à Miro (#3)" and "Hommage à Miro (#5)" (a second composition with this title); see all three in Related Works in the Catalogue below. - 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 color of the hand additions, 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 publisher Osiris groups this composition with 22 other compositions under the title "23 Small Works on Paper." Each of the works can be displayed individually. The full set is as follows:
"Le Feu dans la Grille"
"Les Inondations"
"Mouillés le Soir"
"La Peur de l'Eau"
"Le Soir"
"Les Tangos de l'Après Guerre"
"Tourbillon"
"Les Fleurs à Deauville"
"Le Jardin du Luxembourg"
"Memories Qui Renaissent"
"Rivière (#4)"
"Rue de Lille"
"Son Bruit Réverbéré Contre la Montagne"
"D'Eau"
"Fountain (#1)"
"Hommage à Miro"
"Je Cherche Après Titine"
"Les Meules"
"Les Mimosas d'Abord"
"Napoleon en Égypte"
"Rayons du Soleil"
"Rivière (#6)"
"Ton Coeur Ton Coeur"
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Hommage à Miro (#1), (#2), and (#5)
2008
States
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Hommage à Miro (#1)
Only state
2008
Only state
2008
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Hommage à Miro (#2)
Only state
2008
Only state
2008
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Hommage à Miro (#5)
Only state
2008
Only state
2008
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