The Lost Girl

Cat. No. 1127

The Lost Girl

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2004
Themes
Faces & Portaits, Spirals
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Smooth, wove Arches paper (3 sheets), mounted on smooth, wove, handmade Dieu Donné paper
Dimensions:
plate (a and c) (each): 9 15/16 × 7 1/2" (25.2 × 19 cm); plate (b): 9 15/16 × 8 7/16" (25.2 × 21.5 cm); sheet (overall): 15 9/16 × 28 1/16" (39.5 × 71.2 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
3
Edition Information:
The hand additions vary from impression to impression. For comparison, see other impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.

In this edition, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.)

The plate seen in panels (a) and (c) was also used in the illustrated book "Hang On" and in the edition "Around We Go." They can both be seen in Related Works in the Catalogue below.
Impression:
"Study 1/3 / MOMA" lower center sheet verso, red pencil, unknown hand.
Description:
panel (a): Soft ground etching, with red ink additions
panel (b): Etching, with white gouache and black pencil additions
panel (c): Soft ground etching, with pencil additions
State Changes and Additions:
Matrices:
The plate seen in panels (a) and (c) is arranged in a different orientation for each panel.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
710.2006
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

The Lost Girl

2004

States
The Lost Girl
The Lost Girl
The Lost Girl

Related Works in the Catalogue

She Lost It (1)
Mother and Child
Untitled, plates 15 and 16 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
The Cross-Eyed Woman V
The Cross-Eyed Woman VII
Tête à l'envers
Insomnia
Femme
Around We Go

Related Works in Other Mediums

Tomorrow Will Be Better
Untitled
Untitled (verso)
Smile at the Stranger