Mother and Child

Cat. No. 1115

Mother and Child

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2004
Themes
Body Parts, Figures, Motherhood & Family
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 18 3/16 × 17 1/4" (46.2 × 43.8 cm); sheet: 29 × 21" (73.7 × 53.3 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
2 known impressions of the only state, outside the illustrated book edition
Edition Information:
This composition is included in the illustrated book edition "Hang On."

About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
Of the announced edition of 9 unbound and 12 bound, only 9 unbound examples were realized.

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 5 has red crayon, red pencil, pencil, and gray watercolor wash additions.
Impression:
Not numbered
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.
Description:
Soft ground etching, with red pencil additions
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Untitled, plate 5 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On ; Mother and Child

2004

States
Untitled, plate 5 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
Mother and Child
Mother and Child

Illustrated Book

2004

Hang On

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