
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY