
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 233, study 1
Where People Face Each Other in Judgement
- State/Variant:
- Study
- Date:
- 1997
- Themes:
- Figures, Motherhood & Family, Objects
- Techniques:
- Other
- Description:
- Photocopy, with red ink additions
- Support:
- Smooth paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 8 1/2 x 11" (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Inscription:
- Verso: "Felix / Jerry Saliente / print 24 x 18" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand; "where people face each other in judgment, dinner table, impossible / to hide" left lower to right lower sheet, red ink, artist's hand.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Edition:
- 5 known photocopy studies
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition at any state.
The 3 impressions of varying states labeled "HC", in the artist's hand, are not conventional H.C. impressions, which would be included in an edition. - Background:
- In the inscription on the verso of the second study illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, Bourgeois refers to Jean-Louis, one of her three sons.
- Artist’s Remarks:
- Inscription on the verso of the first study illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram below: "where people face each other in judgment, dinner table, impossible / to hide."
Inscription on the verso of the second study illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram below: "unique for Pat Slatt / print / the child is Jean Louis / the father is looking at Jean L Louis. / January 28 1998. NY / Rachel Cowan-"
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY