Louise Bourgeois. Le Père et les 3 Fils (2005)

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Louise Bourgeois. Le Père et les 3 Fils. 2005

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Cat. No. 806 (cancellation proof)

Le Père et les 3 Fils

State/Variant:: Only state, cancellation proof
Date:: 2005

Descriptive Title:: English translation: "The Father and the 3 Sons"
Themes:: Animals & Insects, Motherhood & Family
Techniques:: Etching
Description:: Soft ground etching, with pencil additions
Support:: Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:: plate: 55 11/16 × 12 3/8" (141.5 × 31.4 cm; sheet: 21 1/4 × 60" (54 × 152.4 cm)
Signature:: Not signed
Inscription:: "Cancelled" left middle margin, pencil, artist's hand. Verso: "#1" lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
Publisher:: unpublished
Printer:: Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Edition:: 2 known cancellation proofs
Impression:: Not numbered
Edition Information:: This is one of 2 known cancellation proofs. A cancellation proof is included in the Evolving Composition Diagram because there are no known impressions without hand additions. This composition was not issued as a published edition.

There are 3 unique variants of this plate. They all include extensive hand additions and are listed below.

Before settling on the 3 unique variants, Bourgeois first added hand additions to 7 impressions of the plate and called them "studies." (Usually in this catalogue, the term "study" describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.) She then combined 3 of these studies into a unique variant triptych titled “Le Père et les 3 Fils.” She issued another study as a unique variant single panel work. The three remaining studies are no longer extant, according to the Louise Bourgeois Studio.

She worked again with this plate to make an additional multi-panel work, titled "Afraid." This work was made from impressions of the plate that were separate from the initial 7 studies described above.

The 3 unique variants are listed below and can be seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram:

"Afraid"
“Le Père et les 3 Fils” (triptych incorporates studies 1, 4, and 7)
“Le Père et les 3 Fils” (study 5)
MoMA Credit Line:: Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:: 965.2011