
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1240
Rivière
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2008
- Descriptive Title:
-
English translation: "River"
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Nature
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Soft ground etching, with watercolor, gouache, and pastel additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 8 1/2 × 13 1/2" (21.6 × 34.3 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- 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 color of the hand additions, 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