Cat. No. 654/III, variant
The Bad Mother
- State/Variant:
- State III of III, variant
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes:
- Body Parts, Faces & Portraits, Figures, Motherhood & Family
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint, with selective wiping, and pink and red watercolor, and white correction fluid additions
- Support:
- Slightly textured, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 7/8 x 9 15/16" (30.1 x 25.3 cm); sheet: 19 15/16 x 16 1/4" (50.7 x 41.2 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois 2004" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known variant impression of state III, outside the edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of state III.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state II, in drypoint: droplets of milk added; shoulder reinforced.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1490.2012
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