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
Untitled, plates 7 and 8 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On; Magic Wands
2004
States
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Untitled, plates 7 and 8 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
Only state
2004
Only state
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Magic Wands
Only state, variant
2004
Only state, variant
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Magic Wands
Only state, variant
2004
Only state, variant
2004
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Magic Wands
Only state, variant
2004
Only state, variant
2004
Illustrated Book
2004
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