LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Architecture

Techniques:

Drypoint, Engraving

Description:

Drypoint and engraving

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 6 7/8 x 4" (17.5 x 10.1 cm); sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 7/16" (39 x 29.1 cm)

Signature:

Not signed

Inscription:

Verso: "the burr makes / it fuzzy line / the [illeg.] has been / cleaned off (sugar / lift / episode [sic]" lower right, pencil, artist's hand.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH

Edition:

2 known impressions of the only state

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Not issued as a published edition.

Background:

Bourgeois asked Benjamin Shiff, director of Osiris, New York, to have this plate printed, even though he had not provided the plate.

Former Cat. No.:

W & S 86

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

525.1993

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY