LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Alternate Title:

Golden Calf

Descriptive Title:

Cow

Themes:

Animals & Insects

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint, with red and blue crayon, red and blue ink, pencil and white gouache additions

Support:

Smooth, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 9 15/16 x 11 13/16" (25.3 x 30 cm); sheet: 10 7/8 x 14" (27.7 x 35.5 cm)

Signature:

"LB" lower right margin, blue ink over pencil.

Inscription:

"AP" lower left margin, pencil, artist's hand. Verso: "Golden calf" center sheet, blue ink, artist's hand.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

1 known impression of state I

Impression:

Not numbered.

Edition Information:

Not issued as a published edition at any state.

The "AP" inscription, in the artist's hand, does not indicate a conventional A.P. impression, which would be included in an edition.

State Changes and Additions:

Additions in pencil and blue ink: head and face further delineated and overall composition reinforced, anticipating state II.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

822.2008

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY