Cat. No. 1123
Femme Miroir
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes
- Body Parts, Objects
- Techniques
- Etching
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 3/4 × 6 5/16" (24.7 × 16 cm); sheet: 13 3/8 × 10 1/8" (34 × 25.7 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher
- Osiris
- Printer
- Wingate Studio
- Edition:
- 7
- Edition Information:
- This plate was issued in 2 separate editions both titled "Femme Miroir," and in the illustrated book "Hang On."
About the edition of 7:
This edition is made up of 2 single plates and 5 diptychs, all with varying hand additions. For comparison, see multiple impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below. Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression in this edition as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.)
About the edition of 3:
This edition is printed in black ink.
About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
Of the announced edition of 9 unbound and 12 bound, only 9 unbound examples were realized.
There are varying hand additions across the edition of illustrated books. Impression number 5/9 was also available for examination by MoMA cataloguers, but was not available for reproduction. In that example, plate 12 has selective wiping and red crayon additions. - Impression:
- Study 1/7
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The hand additions, paper type, plate dimensions, and impression number could not be fully documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
- Descriptive Title:
- English translation: "Mirror Woman"
- Description:
- Soft ground etching, with watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and pencil additions
Only state
2004
Femme Miroir ; Untitled, plate 14 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
2004
Only state
2004
Untitled, plate 14 of 17, from the illustrated book,<i> Hang On</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Only state
2004
<i>Femme Miroir</i>
2004
Illustrated Book
2004
Hang On
2004
<i>Hang On</i>
2004
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2004
Insomnia
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2000
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2000
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2006
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2008
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Dimensions: sheet: 11 × 8 1/2" (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Smile at the Stranger
2002
Smile at the Stranger
2002
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Dimensions: sheet: 6 3/4 × 7 1/2" (17.1 × 19.1 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY