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