Cat. No. 684/IV
Pregnant Woman
- State/Variant:
- State IV of VIII
- Date:
- 2008
- Themes:
- Body Parts, Figures, Motherhood & Family
- Techniques:
- Aquatint, Drypoint, Engraving
- Description:
- Engraving, aquatint, and drypoint
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16" (25.2 × 20.2 cm); sheet: 15 1/4 × 12 1/16" (38.7 × 30.6 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state IV
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition at any state.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state III, by burnishing: some aquatint removed from interior of torso.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- Toward the end of her life, Bourgeois made a large body of red gouache drawings related to the theme of Motherhood & Family. Bourgeois usually made several iterations of each scene, exploring pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding, among other subjects related to new life. Some drawings were used as source works for print compositions. As the print composition evolved, Bourgeois continued to explore the same subject through drawing. See Related Works in Other Mediums below for examples.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1564.2012
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY