LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Descriptive Title:

Cows

Themes:

Animals & Insects

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint, with red and blue ink, and white correction fluid additions

Support:

Slightly textured, wove paper

Dimensions:

plate: 24 13/16 x 10" (63 x 25.4 cm); sheet: 27 5/8 x 12 13/16" (70.2 x 32.5 cm)

Signature:

"LB. 99" lower right margin, red ink.

Inscription:

"HC" lower left margin, red ink, artist's hand; Verso: "Robert. / Louise. / Michel. / Jean Louis. / Alain." lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

2 known impressions of state III

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Not issued as a published edition at any state.

The "HC" inscription, in the artist's hand, does not indicate a conventional H.C. impression, which would be included in an edition.

State Changes and Additions:

Changes from version I: composition transferred in various sizes to a new plate, in drypoint.
Changes from version 2, state II, in drypoint: 4 cows added, right side of composition.
Changes from version 2, state II, by burnishing: hind legs of cow second from top removed, center comp.

Background:

Inscription on the verso refers to the artist, her husband, Robert Goldwater, and her three sons.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

803.2008

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY