Feather Woman

Cat. No. 1112

Feather Woman

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2005
Themes
Abstraction, Animals & Insects, Figures
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 9 15/16 × 7 7/16" (25.2 × 18.9 cm); sheet: 22 1/2 × 9" (57.2 × 22.9 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right to right lower margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
1 known impression of the only state, outside the illustrated book edition
Edition Information:
In full, this composition is comprised of 2 plates stacked on top of each other. For the illustrated book "Hang On," both plates are used. For this separate impression, only the bottom plate is used. The top part of the composition is done by hand.

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 3 has chine collé, and pencil and white gouache 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 pencil and white gouache additions
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Untitled, plate 2 of of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On ; Feather Woman

2004-2005

States
Untitled, plate 2 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On
Feather Woman

Illustrated Book

2004

Hang On

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Feather Thoughts
Are You in Orbit? (#1)