Hair

Cat. No. 124/V

Hair

State/Variant:
State V of XIII
Date:
1999

Themes
Body Parts, Figures, Objects
Techniques
Drypoint
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
plate: 7 7/8 x 5 5/16" (20 x 13.5 cm); sheet: 11 7/8 x 9" (30.2 x 22.8 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Harlan & Weaver
Edition:
1 known impression of state V
Edition Information:
Proof before the editioning of state XIII.

The 4 impressions of varying states labeled "HC" in red ink, in the artist's hand, are not conventional H.C. impressions, which would be of the final state.
Impression:
Not numbered
Descriptive Title:
Red Bell Jar
Description:
Drypoint
State Changes and Additions:
Changes from state IV in drypoint: platform further delineated, railing reconfigured at upper right, and staircase extended.
Other Remarks:
According to Louise Bourgeois’s assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, the bell jar-like form in “Hair” was not done in conjunction with Bourgeois’s monumental sculptural installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, in 2000. In that installation, each of three huge steel towers included, within it, a small sculpture depicting a mother and child inside a bell jar. Bourgeois’s print “Do Not Abandon Me,” with similar imagery and seen here in Related Works in the Catalogue, does have a direct relationship to the Tate installation.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
828.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Hair

1999-2000

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Related Works in the Catalogue

Untitled
The Cross-Eyed Woman V
The Young Girl
Do Not Abandon Me
Girl with Hair

Related Works in Other Mediums

Untitled (Chair)
Hair
Untitled
The Do Gooder Protected by Its Mass of Hair