Le Grand Regard Greeting

Cat. No. 1107/I

Le Grand Regard Greeting

State/Variant:
State I of II
Date:
1948
Alternate Title:
Winged Head
Themes
Abstraction, Faces & Portaits
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 6 3/4 × 9" (17.1 × 22.9 cm)
Signature:
"L. Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Louise Bourgeois
Edition:
1 known impression of state I
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition at any state.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
David Porter, who commissioned this greeting card, came to know the artist when he worked at Public Works News in New York. He had a Bourgeois lithograph hanging in his office (according to an undated letter in MoMA Collection records). As a dealer in Washington, D.C., he organized the 1945 exhibition "Personal Statement: Painting Prophecy 1950," which included "Natural History #2," seen in Related Works in Other Mediums below. (To read the artist's statement from the exhibition catalogue, see Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist's "Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997." London: Violette, 1998, p. 44.) Bourgeois did not know whether, as planned, Porter actually had greeting cards made using her design.
Curatorial Remarks:
The paper type and sheet size could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
Description:
Soft ground etching
Inscription:
Verso: "25 [circled] / le grand regard greeting / 7 x 9" center right sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Le Grand Regard Greeting

1948

States
Le Grand Regard Greeting
Le Grand Regard Greeting

Related Works in the Catalogue

Untitled
Greetings: Laughing Monster, plate 1 of 9, from the portfolio, Quarantania

Related Works in Other Mediums

Natural History #2
Winged Head
Joyeux Noel
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled