The Feeding

Cat. No. 685/II

The Feeding

State/Variant:
State II of III
Date:
2007
Themes
Body Parts, Figures, Motherhood & Family
Techniques
Drypoint
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 6 15/16 × 4 15/16" (17.6 × 12.6 cm); sheet: 11 1/8 × 9 1/4" (28.3 × 23.5 cm)
Signature:
"LB" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Harlan & Weaver
Edition:
1 known impression of state II
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition at any state.
Impression:
Not numbered
Curatorial Remarks:
Toward the end of her life, Bourgeois made a large body of red gouache drawings related to the theme of Motherhood & Family. Bourgeois usually made several iterations of each scene, exploring pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding, among other subjects related to new life. Some drawings were used as source works for print compositions. As the print composition evolved, Bourgeois continued to explore the same subject through drawing. See Related Works in Other Mediums below for examples.

The paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The plate dimensions are from an impression in MoMA's Collection. The sheet dimensions were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
Description:
Drypoint, with red gouache additions
State Changes and Additions:
Changes from state I, in drypoint: figure delineated.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

The Feeding

2007-2008

Source

2007

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States
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Untitled, plate 1 of 15, from the series, Nature Study
Blue Is the Color of Your Eyes
The Feeding
Feeding, plate 13 of 24, from the series, Self Portrait

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Self Portrait
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Those Are Mine, Because They Are My Mother's
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The Good Mother