Spider

Cat. No. 14, variant 3

Spider

State/Variant:
Only state, variant
Date:
1994
Themes
Abstraction, Spiders
Techniques
Aquatint
Support:
Smooth, wove Arches paper, mounted on smooth, wove Dieu Donné paperboard
Dimensions:
plate: 6 13/16 x 4 13/16" (17.3 x 12.3 cm); sheet: 14 3/4 x 11" (37.5 x 27.9 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
5 known variant impressions: 3 with hand-drawn spider addition, 2 with aquatint background only
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition.

Very slight variations exist in the delineation of the hand-drawn spider in each of the the three impressions with that addition.
Impression:
"Study 1/3" center verso, pencil, artist's hand.
Background:
The background pattern of this composition is from a plate created in c. 1989 as a technical experiment for Benjamin Shiff, Director of Osiris Editions. Four known impressions were documented in Wye & Smith as B2 with the descriptive title, "Diagonal Drips Across Plate." Two of those impressions are in MoMA's Collection. An additional impression was located with the publisher, making five known impressions in all.

In 1994, the artist added a spider in ink over the compositions of three of the known impressions. Those three impressions were then titled "Spider."
Curatorial Remarks:
This aquatint impression was trimmed to the plate mark and mounted to a board.
Former Cat. No.:
W & S B2
Description:
Aquatint, with black ink, red ink, and pencil additions
Inscription:
Verso: "Study 1/3" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
State Changes and Additions:
Additions in pencil: partically erased delineation of a small house at center right.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
704.2006
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Spider

c. 1989-1994

States
Untitled
Untitled
Spider

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