Portrait

Cat. No. 732.1

Portrait

State/Variant:
Version 1 of 2, only state
Date:
1990
Themes
Abstraction, Faces & Portaits, Figures
Techniques
Aquatint, Etching
Support:
Thin, laid paper
Dimensions:
plate: 8 3/8 x 5 3/8" (21.2 x 13.6 cm); sheet: 11 9/16 x 9 5/16" (29.3 x 23.6 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Gravure
Edition:
2 known impressions of version 1
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition in either version.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
The source drawing was inspired by a sculpture, "Woman with a Secret," 1947-49, seen below in Related Works in Other Mediums.

Bourgeois admired the printing facilities of the Gravure workshop and also felt a personal rapport with the owner and master printer, Christian Guérin. Guérin helped the artist develop plates for several important projects in the early 1990s.
Former Cat. No.:
W & S B13.1
Description:
Etching and aquatint
Artist’s Remarks:
Inscribed on the verso of the source drawing: "destroyed / and / resuciteé / She wolf [crossed out] fox. / the test is: / am I forgiven after / the destruction / la defense du père / le pardon du la mère / c'est le sign du / l'adulte / college sevigné. / to J.G."
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
564.1993
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Portrait

1990

Source

1985

The She-Fox
First Version
Portrait
Portrait
Second Version
Portrait
Portrait
Portrait

Related Works in the Catalogue

Boxwoods, plate 7 of 9, from the portfolio, Quarantania
Thompson Street
Untitled, plate 14 of 14, from the portfolio, Autobiographical Series
Untitled, no. 23 of 36, from the series, The Fragile

Related Works in Other Mediums

Untitled
Woman with a Secret
Sleeping Figure
She-Fox