Untitled

Cat. No. 1125

Untitled

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2005
Themes
Abstraction, Nature
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 9 15/16 × 7 1/2" (25.2 × 19 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 11 1/2" (36.8 × 29.2 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
1
Edition Information:
In full, this composition is comprised of four plates arranged in a grid. "Femme Diagonale" and "Hang On" use all four plates, while the untitled compositions only use the top left plate, printed once or twice. When all four plates are used, soft ground etching is only in three of the plates. The top right rectangle is a print of a slightly distressed plate.

About the untitled editions:
The top left plate from the full composition was used for three untitled editions. This is the edition of 1 with black hand additions. The edition of 3 has red hand additions. There is also an edition of 3 diptychs with red and blue hand additions.

About the "Femme Diagonale" edition:
Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.) There are varying hand additions across the edition.

About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
There are varying hand additions across the edition of illustrated books. Impression number 5/9 was also available for examination by MoMA cataloguers, but was not available for reproduction. In that example, plate 17 has chine collé, and blue watercolor wash, red crayon, and pencil additions.
Impression:
1/1
Curatorial Remarks:
The paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The plate size is from the diptych impression in MoMA's Collection.
Description:
Soft ground etching, with colored pencil and pencil additions
Inscription:
"P 1 [encircled]" right lower margin, pencil, unknown hand.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Untitled, plate 17 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On ; Femme Diagonale ...

2004-2005

States
Untitled, plate 17 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
Femme Diagonale
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled

Illustrated Book

2004

Hang On

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