
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1240
Les Oiseaux
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2007
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "The Birds"
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Nature
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Soft ground etching, with blue watercolor and blue gouache additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 15 3/4 × 9 7/8" (40 × 25.1 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right comp. to lower right margin, pencil.
- Inscription:
- "les oiseaux" upper left margin, pencil, artist's hand.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 3 known impressions of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- The hand additions on this composition vary from impression to impression, as do the titles. For comparison, see the other examples in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
- 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