Cat. No. 432/B/II
Untitled, plate 3 of 14, from the portfolio, Auobiographical Series, component B
- State/Variant:
- State II of II
- Date:
- 1993
- Alternate Title:
-
MIchel; Jean Louis
- Descriptive Title:
-
Boy
- Themes:
- Faces & Portraits, Figures
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 3 9/16 x 2 3/16" (9 x 5.5 cm); sheet: 12 5/16 x 9 1/4" (31.3 x 23.5 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of component B, state II
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of the only state with components A and B printed on a single sheet.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Change from state I, in drypoint: right arm altered.
Changes from state I, by burnishing: scratches in lower left composition removed. - Background:
- Bourgeois was often inspired by the subjects of early drawings when creating works at much later dates. This 1994 portfolio is an example of a project based primarily on drawings from the 1940s and referring to her life in New York at that time. The exceptions are as follows: plate 1, based on a drawing from 1986 that references childbirth; plates 4 and 9, based on drawings from the 1940s but depicting memories of her childhood years in France; plate 11, most probably based on a drawing from the 1940s of a European hotel desk.
Bourgeois had three sons: Michel, Jean-Louis, and Alain. Michel and Jean-Louis are mentioned on the source drawings in the Evolving Composition Diagram below. - Curatorial Remarks:
- The progression of this composition, as seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, involved two components: A and B. Before editioning the impression with both components printed on a single sheet, Bourgeois made separate proofs of each component and made state changes to component B.
Of the 14 plates in "Autobiographical Series," Bourgeois titled plates 6 and 12. The untitled plates have been assigned descriptive titles for cataloguing purposes. - MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 623.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Untitled, plate 3 of 14, from the portfolio, Autobiographical Series
1993-1994
Source
c. 1944
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Michel
Pencil on paper
c. 1944
Pencil on paper
c. 1944
Source
c. 1944
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Jean Louis
Pencil on paper
c. 1944
Pencil on paper
c. 1944
Component A
Only state
1993
1993
Component B
State I of II
1993
1993
State II of II
1993
1993
States
Published
Only state
1994
1994
