Femme

Cat. No. 1113

Femme

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2004

Themes
Figures
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper, mounted on paper
Dimensions:
plate: 9 5/16 × 5 7/8" (23.7 × 15 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 3/8" (40 × 28.9 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
8
Edition Information:
This plate was issued as 2 separate editions, and in an illustrated book, all listed below.

Editions:
"Couple"
"Femme"

Illustrated book:
"Hang On"

About the "Couple" and "Femme" editions:
The hand additions vary from impression to impression. For comparison within each edition, see multiple impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.

In both editions, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.)
Impression:
"Study 1/8" verso.
Curatorial Remarks:
The color of the hand additions, paper type, and impression number could not be fully documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.

This composition was printed on a separate, smaller sheet and mounted to the sheet seen here.
Description:
Etching, with gouache, ink, and pencil additions
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Couple ; Femme ; Untitled, plate 3 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On

2004

States
Couple
Couple
Couple
Couple
Couple
Couple
Couple
Couple
Femme
Femme
Femme
Femme
Femme
Femme
Femme
Femme
Untitled, plate 3 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On

Illustrated Book

2004

Hang On

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Femme
Femme
Louise and Robert, plate 4 of 24, from the series, Self Portrait
The Cross-Eyed Woman II
The Couple, plate 5 of 7, from the portfolio, La Réparation
Femme
Couple

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Femme
Couple
Couple
Femme
The Couple
Couple
The Couple
The Couple
Couple I
Femme