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Cat. No. 1123

Femme Miroir

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2004
Descriptive Title:
English translation: "Mirror Woman"
Themes:
Body Parts, Objects
Techniques:
Etching
Description:
Soft ground etchings, with watercolor, gouache, pencil, and colored pencil additions
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 9 3/4 × 6 5/16" (24.7 × 16 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 × 12 1/8" (42.5 × 30.8 cm); sheet: 17 × 12 1/2" (43.2 × 31.8 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin each sheet, pencil.
Publisher:
Osiris, New York
Printer:
Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Edition:
7
Impression:
Study 4
Edition Information:
This plate was issued in 2 separate editions both titled "Femme Miroir," and in the illustrated book "Hang On."

About the edition of 7:
This edition is made up of 2 single plates and 5 diptychs, all with varying hand additions. For comparison, see multiple impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below. Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression in this edition as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.)

About the edition of 3:
This edition is printed in black ink.

About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
Of the announced edition of 9 unbound and 12 bound, only 9 unbound examples were realized.

There are varying hand additions across the edition of illustrated books. Impression number 5/9 was also available for examination by MoMA cataloguers, but was not available for reproduction. In that example, plate 12 has selective wiping and red crayon additions.
Curatorial Remarks:
The hand additions, paper type, plate dimensions, and impression number could not be fully documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.

Femme Miroir; Untitled, plate 14 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
2004

States

Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, plate 14 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Untitled, plate 14 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Femme Miroir. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Femme Miroir
Only state
2004

Illustrated Book
2004

NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Hang On. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Hang On
2004
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