LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Alternate Title:

Landscape

Descriptive Title:

English translation: "The Reparation"

Themes:

Architecture

Techniques:

Drypoint, Engraving

Description:

Drypoint and engraving, with red crayon, pencil, and red ink additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 8 7/16 x 10 13/16" (21.5 x 27.5 cm); sheet: 10 13/16 x 13 1/2" (27.4 x 34.3 cm)

Signature:

"LB" right lower margin, pencil.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

1 known impression of state X

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Proof before the editioning of state XX.

State Changes and Additions:

Matrices: The progression of this composition, as seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, involved 2 plates in 3 different techniques.

Plate 1, in drypoint, engraving, and aquatint: house and sun.

Plate 2, in aquatint, drypoint, and engraving: shading in mounds, sun, and lowest horizontal band.

State Changes:
Plate 1 printed in black.
Changes from state IX, in drypoint: hatch marks added to topmost horizontal band.

Curatorial Remarks:

Although the verso of the source drawing is inscribed "Landscape" by the artist, the Louise Bourgeois Studio has designated the title of the drawing to the same as that of the print. The drawing was exhibited in "Louise Bourgeois Drawings and Sculpture" at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2002. The accompanying catalogue lists the title as "Landscape."

Other Remarks:

Although it appears possible that the artist used a new plate for state VII, Carol Weaver of Harlan & Weaver, New York, remembers Bourgeois extensively working the same plate and continuing to use it. A new plate was not introduced until state XVI.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

1603.2008

This Work in Other Collections:

Tate Modern, London (state XX)

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY