
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1144
Father and Son
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Figures, Motherhood & Family
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint, with selective wiping, and red ink additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 10 3/4 × 9 3/4" (27.3 × 24.8 cm); sheet: 14 × 10 1/2" (35.6 × 26.7 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower middle margin, red ink; "LB / 2004" right lower margin, red ink.
- Inscription:
- "To Rosamond and John / with love" lower left to lower middle margin, red ink, artist's hand.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Not issued as a published edition.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The inscription refers to the author and editor Rosamond Bernier (1916-2016) and her husband, art critic John Russell (1919-2008), who were close friends of Bourgeois's.
The paper type could not be fully documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY