Cat. No. 837
Beautiful Night
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes
- Nature
- Techniques
- Lithography
- Support:
- Somerset paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 20 3/4 × 27 3/4" (52.7 × 70.5 cm); sheet: 20 3/4 × 27 3/4" (52.7 × 70.5 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right comp., blue ink.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Printer
- Derriere L'Etoile Studios
- Edition:
- Edition: 50; plus 15 A.P., 7 H.C., 5 P.P., 1 B.A.T.
- Impression:
- "HC IV" lower left comp., unknown hand.
- Description:
- Lithography, with punched hole
- Benefit Work:
- For Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
- Artist’s Remarks:
- According to Wendy Williams, Managing Director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio, the artist gave the Brooklyn Academy of Music the following quote to promote the benefit edition: "The trees symbolize a couple on their first date. It's a beautiful moonlit night that they will remember forever." (2/11/2004)
- This Work in Other Collections:
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Only state
2004
Beautiful Night
2004
Source
2004
Beautiful Night
2004
Beautiful Night
2004
Medium: Watercolor, ink, and gouache on music paper
Dimensions: sheet: 18 1/4 x 24 1/4" (46.4 x 61.6 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Only state
2004
<i>Beautiful Night</i>
2004
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