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Cat. No. 837

Beautiful Night

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2004
Themes:
Nature
Techniques:
Lithography
Description:
Lithography, with punched hole
Support:
Somerset paper
Dimensions:
plate: 20 3/4 × 27 3/4" (52.7 × 70.5 cm); sheet: 20 3/4 × 27 3/4" (52.7 × 70.5 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right comp., blue ink.
Publisher:
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Printer:
Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York
Edition:
Edition: 50; plus 15 A.P., 7 H.C., 5 P.P., 1 B.A.T.
Impression:
"HC IV" lower left comp., unknown hand.
Benefit Work:
For Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Artist’s Remarks:
According to Wendy Williams, Managing Director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio, the artist gave the Brooklyn Academy of Music the following quote to promote the benefit edition: "The trees symbolize a couple on their first date. It's a beautiful moonlit night that they will remember forever." (2/11/2004)
This Work in Other Collections:
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Beautiful Night
2004

Source
2004

NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Beautiful Night. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Beautiful Night
Watercolor, ink, and gouache on music paper
2004

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Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Beautiful Night. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Only state
2004