LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Alternate Title:

Summer II; Interior #4; Easton Serving

Themes:

Architecture, Figures, Objects

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 7 1/2 x 4 15/16" (19.1 x 12.6 cm); sheet: 14 7/8 x 10 15/16" (37.8 x 27.8 cm)

Signature:

"LB" lower left margin, pencil.

Inscription:

"Easton" lower right margin, pencil, artist's hand; "1940" [erased] lower right margin, pencil, artist's hand (?). Verso: "Easton Serving" lower right sheet, pencil, artist's hand; "72" [circled] lower right sheet, pencil, artist's hand.

The alternate titles are derived from this impression's inscriptions and inscriptions on other known impressions of this composition, all in the artist's hand.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

The artist

Edition:

1 known impression of state I

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Not issued as a published edition at any state.

Artist’s Remarks:

"This is the house in Easton, with its dining room window opening out," Bourgeois said, referring to her family's country house in Connecticut. "This was to show how nice the house was, and to show how perfect a hostess I could be. I am very pleased.... This scene is very loving." (Quote cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 60.)

Curatorial Remarks:

Although some impressions of this composition are dated 1940, Bourgeois and her family purchased the house in Easton in 1941, so a circa 1941 date is given here.

Former Cat. No.:

W & S 19

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

123.1990.1

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY