Cat. No. 1319
Spirals (#1)
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2006
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Spirals
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with watercolor, gouache, and pencil additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 18 1/8 × 57" (46 × 144.8 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right comp., pencil.
- Inscription:
- Verso: "#1 right" lower center sheet, "#1 center" lower center sheet, and "#1 left / #1" lower center sheet, pencil, across the triptych.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 2 known triptychs of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- The hand additions on this composition vary from impression to impression. The impressions are presented in 2 triptychs. Within the triptychs, the orientation of the compositions varies. For comparison, see the other example in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The 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 Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY