Hommage à Miro (#4)

Cat. No. 1242

Hommage à Miro (#4)

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2009

Themes
Abstraction
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 15 3/4 × 9 7/8" (40 × 25.1 cm)
Signature:
"LB" right lower margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
1 known impression of the only state
Edition Information:
The plate for this composition was also used in combination with the plate for "Hommage à Miro (#1)," seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue. Those plates together form the two compositions noted below and also seen in Related Works in the Catalogue.

"Hommage à Miro (#3)"
"Hommage à Miro (#5)
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
Bourgeois befriended artist Joan Miró in 1947 through her participation at Atelier 17, the communal print workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, and transferred from Paris to New York during the war years.
Curatorial Remarks:
The plate size and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
Descriptive Title:
English translation: "Homage to Miro"
Description:
Etching, with watercolor and gouache additions
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Hommage à Miro (#4)

2009

States
Hommage à Miro (#4)

Related Works in the Catalogue

Hommage à Miro (#3)
Hommage à Miro (#5)
Hommage à Miro (#1)