Cat. No. 150
The Smile
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2001
- Alternate Title:
-
The Child
- Themes:
- Faces & Portraits, Figures
- Techniques:
- Lithography
- Description:
- Lithograph
- Support:
- Smooth, wove, Okawara paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 11/16" (28.5 x 22 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" right lower sheet, pencil.
- Publisher:
- The artist
- Printer:
- SOLO Impression, New York
- Edition:
- 25; plus 4 A.P., and an edition of 40 on fabric with 5 A.P.
- Impression:
- "AP 2" left lower sheet, pencil, unknown hand.
- Background:
- Bourgeois created prints as holiday gifts for a circle of friends. "The Smile" was printed in paper and fabric editions, and both were used as holiday gifts for 2001.
- Other Remarks:
- Printer Judith Solodkin, of SOLO Impression, notes that she has titled this print "The Child" in her records, but that the Louise Bourgeois Studio calls it "The Smile."
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1754.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
The Smile
2001
Source
2002
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
The Smile
Ink, pencil, and correction fluid on paper
2002
Ink, pencil, and correction fluid on paper
2002
States
Published
Only state
2001
2001
Published
Only state
2001
2001
