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Cat. No. 670/IV, variant 2

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State/Variant:
State IV of IV, variant
Date:
2003-2005
Themes
Faces & Portaits, Figures, Motherhood & Family
Techniques
Drypoint, Engraving
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
plate: 11 1/8 x 8 3/4" (28.2 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 14 9/16 x 11 5/16" (37 x 28.7 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Harlan & Weaver
Edition:
5 known impressions of state IV
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition at any state.

The additional known impression of this state is not in MoMA's Collection. It is not illustrated due to its similarity to the impressions seen here. It is inscribed by the artist "'Alain' for Jean-Louis" in the lower middle margin, and signed "Louise May 19/2004" in the lower right margin, both in red ink.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
In 2003, "Radar," a now defunct magazine, asked Bourgeois to participate in a "Talking Heads" series. The premise was for each participating artist to receive the same photocopy of a head in profile. The artists were then asked to add hand additions in whatever fashion they chose. The black outlined profile head, seen in the Source drawing in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, was provided by "Radar" to Bourgeois. (The profile outline is also seen here as a Study and as a Related Work in Other Mediums.) The Louise Bourgeois Studio has no record that the "Talking Heads" collaboration with Bourgeois ever came to fruition. However, Bourgeois went on to use the profile outline as the basis of the composition seen here, ultimately combined with a keyhole motif.
Curatorial Remarks:
Henry Lowenfeld was the psychoanalyst Bourgeois worked with intensively in the period of the 1950's into the 1960's, as well as intermittenly until Lowenfeld died in 1985. The inscription that follows refers to the artist Jacques Lipchitz and his organization, the Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation.
Descriptive Title:
Boy Through a Keyhole
Description:
Drypoint and engraving, with selective wiping
State Changes and Additions:
Changes from state III, in drypoint: Adam's apple added; shading added to eye.
Changes from state III, in engraving: hair increased.
Artist’s Remarks:
Inscribed on the verso of the source drawing: "false memory syndrom— / memories of parents as molestors / Hysteria / skitzophrenia / paranoia / to punish / henry / Lowenfeld / Yulla + Jack Lipschitz founda / tion" (sic) across sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
1751.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

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2003-2005

Source

2003

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Studies
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States
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Related Works in the Catalogue

Self Portrait

Related Works in Other Mediums

Key Hole
Key Hole
Tomorrow Will Be Better