Cat. No. 1364, in 1360

Untitled, no. 4 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky

Date:: 2009
Series:: The Red Sky

Themes: Abstraction, Music, Nature, Words
Techniques: Other Techniques
Support:: panels (a) and (c): Music paper; staves drawn in pencil
panel (b): Paper
Dimensions:: sheet: 44 1/2 × 39" (113 × 99.1 cm)
Signature:: panels (a) and (c): "Louise Bourgeois" right lower comp., pencil.
panel (b): "Louise Bourgeois / LB" right lower comp., pencil.
Publisher: Osiris
Printer: Wingate Studio
Edition:: Unique
Impression:: Not numbered
Background:: Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
Description:: Red, white, and blue gouache, and red watercolor wash
Inscription:: panel (a): "the blue of your eyes / against the red sky" center left to center comp., pencil, artist's hand.
panel (c): "le" upper center comp., pencil, artist's hand.
Installation Remarks:: This sheet is one of 11 that constitute a single work of art. All of these compositions are to be exhibited together in the indicated sequence.