NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1112
Feather Woman
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2005
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Animals & Insects, Figures
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Soft ground etching, with pencil and white gouache additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 15/16 × 7 7/16" (25.2 × 18.9 cm); sheet: 22 1/2 × 9" (57.2 × 22.9 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right to right lower margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of the only state, outside the illustrated book edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- In full, this composition is comprised of 2 plates stacked on top of each other. For the illustrated book "Hang On," both plates are used. For this separate impression, only the bottom plate is used. The top part of the composition is done by hand.
About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
Of the announced edition of 9 unbound and 12 bound, only 9 unbound examples were realized.
There are varying hand additions across the edition of illustrated books. Impression number 5/9 was also available for examination by MoMA cataloguers, but was not available for reproduction. In that example, plate 3 has chine collé, and pencil and white gouache additions. - Curatorial Remarks:
- The 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
Untitled, plate 2 of of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On; Feather Woman
2004-2005
States
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Untitled, plate 2 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
Only state
2004
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Feather Woman
Only state
2005
Only state
2005
