Cat. No. 406/VI
The Ladders
- State/Variant:
- State VI of VII
- Date:
- 2006
- Themes:
- Objects
- Techniques:
- Engraving
- Description:
- Engraving
- Support:
- Smooth, wover paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 15/16 × 10" (30.4 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 × 13 1/2" (40.9 × 34.3 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower middle margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state VI
- Impression:
- "w.p." lower left margin, pencil, unknown hand
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of state VII.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state V in engraving: composition reworked overall, cross-hatching added to ladders, tops of center ladder re-configured, ladder at lower right further delineated, figure at lower right re-drawn.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1525.2012
- This Work in Other Collections:
- National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY