Cat. No. 1282
Hommage à Miro (#5)
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2008
- Themes
- Abstraction
- Techniques
- Etching
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 15 × 18" (38.1 × 45.7 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher
- Osiris
- Printer
- Wingate Studio
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of the only state
- Edition Information:
- This composition is made up of the plate for "Hommage à Miro (# 4)" (left) and the plate for "Hommage à Miro (#1)" (right). See both in Related Works in the Catalogue below.
- 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 (#5)"
- Description:
- Etching, with watercolor, gouache, and ink additions
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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Related Works in the Catalogue
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Hommage à Miro (#4)
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<i>Hommage à Miro (#4)</i>
2009
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Hommage à Miro (#5)
Only state
2008
Not in MoMA's Collection
<i>Hommage à Miro (#5)</i>
2008