
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1008
La Petite Pousse III
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2005
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "The Little Shoot"
- Themes:
- Music, Nature
- Techniques:
- Aquatint
- Description:
- Aquatint, with black ink and pencil additions
- Support:
- Music paper (staves drawn in pencil), mounted on paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 14 15/16 × 10 7/8" (37.9 × 27.7 cm); sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 1/8" (49.5 × 35.9 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 9 with hand additions; plus an edition of 25
- Impression:
- Verso: "Study 6/9"
- Edition Information:
- This composition was issued in 2 separate editions, "La Petite Pousse II" and "La Petite Pousse III."
About "La Petite Pousse II":
There are 25 impressions in this edition.
About "La Petite Pousse III":
There are 9 impressions in this edition, each with varying hand additions. For comparison, see other impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
In this edition, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a "study." However, throughout the catalogue, the term "study" describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.
One variant impression of this composition, seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, was used in a series of folio sets titled, "Nothing to Remember." - Curatorial Remarks:
- The verso inscription and paper type could not be fully documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The plate dimensions are from the impression in MoMA's Collection. The sheet dimensions were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
La Petite Pousse II and III
2004-2006
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