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The plate used in this composition was issued as an edition, in two variants outside the edition, and in three unique variants (one in the series, “Le Matin Rouge”). All can be seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
There are also two known cancellation proofs.
Background:
Bourgeois and her family purchased a country house in Easton, Connecticut in the 1940s. She frequently spent time there when her three sons were young.
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