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Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 5 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky. 2009
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Cat. No. 1365, unique variant 3, in 1360

Untitled, no. 5 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky

State/Variant:
Only state, unique variant
Date:
2009
Series:
The Red Sky (View All)
Themes:
Abstraction, Nature
Techniques:
Etching
Description:
panel (a): Soft ground etching, with red watercolor wash
panels (b) and (c): Red gouache
Support:
panel (a): Music paper; staves drawn in pencil
panels (b) and (c): Paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 44 5/8 × 38 5/8" (113.3 × 98.1 cm)
Signature:
panel (c): "LB" right lower comp., pencil.
Publisher:
Osiris, New York
Printer:
Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Edition:
Unique
Impression:
Not numbered
State Changes and Additions:
Matrices:
Unique variants of this plate appear in two series: "La Rivière Gentille" (set 2), and "The Red Sky." When the plate is printed alone, it appears in the Evolving Composition Diagram below. When it is used in combination with another plate, it is included in Related Works in the Catalogue.
Background:
Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
Installation Remarks:
This sheet is one of 11 that constitute a single work of art. All of these compositions are to be exhibited together in the indicated sequence.

Nos. 20 and 39 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2); No. 5 of 11, from the series,...
2009

Unique Variants

Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 20 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3). 2007
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Untitled, no. 20 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Only state, unique variant
2007
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 39 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3). 2007
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Untitled, no. 39 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Only state, unique variant
2007
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 5 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky. 2009
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Untitled, no. 5 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky
Only state, unique variant
2009

Series
2007

NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3). 2007
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the...
2007
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2009

NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. The Red Sky. 2009
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION The Red Sky
2009
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