Feather Woman

Cat. No. 1120

Feather Woman

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2004
Themes
Abstraction, Animals & Insects, Body Parts
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
plate: 8 3/16 × 11 7/8" (20.8 × 30.2 cm); sheet: 31 5/8 × 14" (80.3 × 35.6 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:
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 impression outside the book, only the bottom plate is used. The top part of the composition is done with hand additions.

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

Feather Woman ; Untitled, plate 11 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On

2004

States
Feather Woman
Feather Woman
Untitled, plate 11 of 17, from the illustrated book, Hang On

Illustrated Book

2004

Hang On

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