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Cat. No. 1101

Where Would We Be Without Each Other?

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2009
Alternate Title:
Ma Maison
Themes:
Architecture
Techniques:
Etching
Description:
Etching, with pencil additions and selective wiping
Support:
Smooth, wove paper (2 sheets, overlapping but separate)
Dimensions:
plate (a and b) (each): 34 3/4 × 31 11/16" (88.2 × 80.5 cm); sheet (a): 45 3/8 × 33 7/8" (115.2 × 86.1 cm); sheet (b): 45 3/8 × 33 7/8" (115.2 × 86.1 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Inscription:
Verso (a): "where would we be / without each other / ? / #8 / left" lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand. Verso (b): "8 Right" lower middle sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
Publisher:
Osiris, New York
Printer:
Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Edition:
9
Impression:
"8/9" lower left margin, pencil, artist's hand.
Edition Information:
The plate used in this composition was issued as an edition, in two variants outside the edition, and in three unique variants (one in the series, “Le Matin Rouge”). All can be seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.

Two in the edition (2/9 and 8/9) have the color impression on the right side, rather than the black impression on the right as in the rest of the edition. (See 8/9 in the Evolving Composition Diagram.) Two in the edition (4/9 and 8/9) have a noticeable red plate tone on the color impression.

There are also two known cancellation proofs.
Installation Remarks:
Left and right sheets should overlap slightly so that the pencil hand additions are connected (see image).
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
570.2013.a-b

Ma Maison; Where Would We Be Without Each Other?; No. 5 of 5, from the series; Le Matin...
2009

States

Louise Bourgeois. Ma Maison. 2009
Ma Maison
Only state, variant
2009
Louise Bourgeois. Ma Maison. 2009
Ma Maison
Only state, variant
2009
Published Louise Bourgeois. Where Would We Be Without Each Other? 2009
Where Would We Be Without Each Other?
Only state
2009
Published Louise Bourgeois. Where Would We Be Without Each Other? 2009
Where Would We Be Without Each Other?
Only state
2009

Unique Variants

Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Ma Maison à Easton. 2007
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Ma Maison à Easton
Only state, unique variant
2007
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 5 of 5, from the series, Le Matin Rouge. 2009
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Untitled, no. 5 of 5, from the series, Le Matin Rouge
Only state, unique variant
2009
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Where Would We Be Without Each Other. 2009
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Where Would We Be Without Each Other
Only state, unique variant
2009

Series
2009

NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Le Matin Rouge. 2009
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Le Matin Rouge
2009
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