
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1117, variant 1
Magic Wands
- State/Variant:
- Only state, variant
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Spirals
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- panel (a): Soft ground etching, with black pencil additions
panel (b): Soft ground etching, with red pencil additions - Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate (each): 13 15/16 × 7 7/16" (35.4 × 18.9 cm); sheet: 20 × 22 1/4" (50.8 × 56.5 cm)
- Signature:
- panel (b): "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 3 known variant impressions of the only state, outside the illustrated book edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- This is one of 3 known examples of this plate outside the illustrated book edition. This example is a diptych; the other two are triptychs. All are seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
Of the announced edition of 9 unbound and 12 bound, only 9 unbound examples were realized.
There are varying hand additions across the edition of illustrated books. Impression number 5/9 was also available for examination by MoMA cataloguers, but was not available for reproduction. In that example, plate 7 (left) has black crayon additions, and plate 8 (right) has blue watercolor wash additions, red crayon, and white gouache additions. - 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