LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Descriptive Title:

English translation: "Dance"

Themes:

Abstraction

Techniques:

Aquatint

Description:

Aquatint, with pink watercolor, pencil, and white gouache additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 31 11/16 x 34 5/8" (80.5 x 88 cm); sheet: 33 15/16 x 38 9/16" (86.2 x 98 cm)

Signature:

"Louise / Bourgeois" lower right composition, pencil.

Inscription:

"petite maman" left center to lower composition [vertical], pencil, artist's hand.

Publisher:

Osiris, New York

Printer:

Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Edition:

9; plus 1 T.P.

Impression:

"2/9" lower left composition, pencil, artist's hand.

Edition Information:

Each impression in the edition of 9 is designated by artist as a “study.” Three of 9 studies are illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram. (Usually in this catalogue, the term “study” describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.)

All impressions in the edition include hand additions, with the exception of 1/9, which does not. The hand additions in the impressions not illustrated are primarily pencil additions, and most closely resemble those in impression 6/9 (see Evolving Composition Diagram).

This plate was also used in an additional composition, a unique variant in the series, "Le Matin Rouge," seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram.

There are 2 known cancellation proofs.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

572.2013

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY