Cat. No. 1007
La Petite Pousse I
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2005
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "The Little Shoot"
- Themes:
- Music, Nature
- Techniques:
- Aquatint
- Description:
- Aquatint, with blue and white gouache, black watercolor, and pencil additions
- Support:
- Music paper (staves drawn in pencil), mounted on smooth, wove board
- Dimensions:
- plate: 14 7/8 × 10 7/8" (37.8 × 27.7 cm); sheet: 19 1/2 x 14 3/8" (49.5 x 36.5 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 9
- Impression:
- Verso: "study 8/9," lower right sheet, pencil, unknown hand.
- Edition Information:
- The color of the ink and the hand additions on this composition vary across the edition. For comparison, see other impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
In this edition, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a "study." However, throughout the catalogue, the term "study" describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition. - MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 717.2006
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY