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Etching, with watercolor, gouache, and pencil additions
Support:
Paper (two attached sheets)
Dimensions:
sheet: 68 × 34 1/4" (172.7 × 87 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" right lower margin, pencil.
Inscription:
"les oiseaux" lower right margin, pencil; "La musique" lower middle margin, pencil; "anges" lower left margin, pencil; "le matin Rouge" left lower edge, margin, pencil; all artist's hand.
The plate used for this composition, found in the central portion of the sheet, was also used for an editioned print, a variant impression, and another composition in this series (no. 4); all are seen 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.
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