
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1316
Lair (Fée Couturière)
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2007
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "Fairy Dressmaker"
- Themes:
- Abstraction
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with blue and red watercolor and pencil additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 7 1/2 × 5" (19.1 × 12.7 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower middle margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 5 single impressions and 2 diptychs of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- The hand additions on this composition vary from impression to impression. The impressions are presented as single compositions and as diptychs, with varying titles. They are listed here, and all but one are seen in the Evolving Composition below; the last is seen in Related Works in the Catalogue.
“Lair (Fée Couturière): 1 impression
“Ton Coeur”: 1 impression
“Ton Coeur”: 1 impression
“Ton Coeur”: 1 impression
“Ton Coeur Ton Coeur”: 1 impression
“Ton Coeur Ton Coeur”: diptych of 2 impressions
“Ton Coeur Ton Coeur”: diptych of 2 impressions
“The Pollination”: diptych of 1 impression of this composition and 1 impression of a second composition - Curatorial Remarks:
- The plate size and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY