
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1103, unique variant
The Sky Is Falling
- State/Variant:
- Diptych: only state, unique variant
- Date:
- 2008
- Alternate Title:
-
The Swarm
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Nature
- Techniques:
- Aquatint
- Description:
- Aquatint, with watercolor, gouache, and pencil additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate (each): 34 7/8 × 31 3/4" (88.6 × 80.7 cm); sheet: 43 1/4 × 66 7/8" (109.9 × 169.9 cm)
- Signature:
- right side: "Louise Bourgeois" right lower comp., pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- Unique
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- “The Sky Is Falling” is one of two unique variants of an editioned print titled, “The Swarm,” seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, along with the second unique variant titled, “Essaim.”
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY