Cat. No. 150
The Smile
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2001
- Alternate Title:
- The Child
- Themes
- Faces & Portaits, Figures
- Techniques
- Lithography
- Support:
- Smooth, wove, Okawara paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 11/16" (28.5 x 22 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" right lower sheet, pencil.
- Publisher
- Louise Bourgeois
- Printer
- SOLO Impression
- Edition:
- 25; plus 4 A.P., and an edition of 40 on fabric with 5 A.P.
- Impression:
- "AP 2" left lower sheet, pencil, unknown hand.
- Background:
- Bourgeois created prints as holiday gifts for a circle of friends. "The Smile" was printed in paper and fabric editions, and both were used as holiday gifts for 2001.
- Description:
- Lithograph
- Other Remarks:
- Printer Judith Solodkin, of SOLO Impression, notes that she has titled this print "The Child" in her records, but that the Louise Bourgeois Studio calls it "The Smile."
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1754.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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Medium: Ink, pencil, and correction fluid on paper
Dimensions: sheet: 9 1/2 x 8" (24.1 x 20.3 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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2001
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2001
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