Cat. No. 1365, unique variant 3, in 1360
Untitled, no. 5 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky
- State/Variant:
- Only state, unique variant
- Date:
- 2009
- Series:
- The Red Sky
- Themes
- Abstraction, Nature
- Techniques
- Etching
- Support:
- panel (a): Music paper; staves drawn in pencil
panels (b) and (c): Paper - Dimensions:
- sheet: 44 5/8 × 38 5/8" (113.3 × 98.1 cm)
- Signature:
- panel (c): "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:
- panel (a): Soft ground etching, with red watercolor wash
panels (b) and (c): Red gouache - State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices:
Unique variants of this plate appear in two series: "La Rivière Gentille" (set 2), and "The Red Sky." When the plate is printed alone, it appears in the Evolving Composition Diagram below. When it is used in combination with another plate, it is included in Related Works in the Catalogue. - 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.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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Nos. 20 and 39 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2); No. 5 of 11, from the series, ...
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Untitled, no. 20 of 48 in<i> La Rivière Gentille </i>(set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
2007
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2007
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Untitled, no. 39 of 48 in<i> La Rivière Gentille </i>(set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
2007
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Only state, unique variant
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 5 of 11, from the series,<i> The Red Sky</i>
2009
Series
2007
Published
Not in MoMA's Collection
La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
2007
Not in MoMA's Collection
<i>La Rivière Gentille </i>(set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
2007
Series
2009
Published
Not in MoMA's Collection
The Red Sky
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
<i>The Red Sky</i>
2009
Related Works in the Catalogue
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Untitled, no. 6 of 11, from the series, The Red Sky
Unique variant
2009
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Untitled, no. 6 of 11, from the series,<i> The Red Sky</i>
2009