Cat. No. 1101
Where Would We Be Without Each Other?
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2009
- Alternate Title:
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Ma Maison
- Themes:
- Architecture
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with pencil additions and selective wiping
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper (2 sheets, overlapping but separate)
- Dimensions:
- plate (a and b) (each): 34 3/4 × 31 11/16" (88.2 × 80.5 cm); sheet (a): 45 3/8 x 33 7/8" (115.2 x 86.1 cm); sheet (b): 45 5/16 x 34" (115.1 x 86.3 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower middle to right margin, pencil.
- Inscription:
- Verso (a): "Where would we be / without each other / ?" center to lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand. "Left" lower middle sheet, pencil, artist's hand. Verso (b): "Right" lower middle sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 9
- Impression:
- "4/9" left lower margin, pencil, artist's hand.
- Edition Information:
- The plate used in this composition was issued as an edition, in two variants outside the edition, and in three unique variants (one in the series, “Le Matin Rouge”). All can be seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
Two in the edition (2/9 and 8/9) have the color impression on the right side, rather than the black impression on the right as in the rest of the edition. (See 8/9 in the Evolving Composition Diagram.) Two in the edition (4/9 and 8/9) have a noticeable red plate tone on the color impression.
There are also two known cancellation proofs. - Installation Remarks:
- Left and right sheets should overlap slightly so that the pencil hand additions are connected (see image).
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 569.2013.a-b
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Ma Maison; Where Would We Be Without Each Other?; No. 5 of 5, from the series; Le Matin...
2009
States
Ma Maison
Only state, variant
2009
Only state, variant
2009
Ma Maison
Only state, variant
2009
Only state, variant
2009
Published
Where Would We Be Without Each Other?
Only state
2009
Only state
2009
Published
Where Would We Be Without Each Other?
Only state
2009
Only state
2009
Unique Variants
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Ma Maison à Easton
Only state, unique variant
2007
Only state, unique variant
2007
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Untitled, no. 5 of 5, from the series, Le Matin Rouge
Only state, unique variant
2009
Only state, unique variant
2009
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Where Would We Be Without Each Other
Only state, unique variant
2009
Only state, unique variant
2009
Series
2009
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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