C'est le Murmure de l'Eau Qui Chante

Cat. No. 771, unique variant 1

C'est le Murmure de l'Eau Qui Chante

State/Variant:
Only state, unique variant
Date:
2005
Alternate Title:
Plate 2
Themes
Abstraction, Music, Nature
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Music paper; staves drawn in pencil
Dimensions:
plate (2): 11 × 15 3/8" (27.9 × 39.1 cm); sheet: 11 1/2 × 30 1/4" (29.2 × 76.8 cm)
Signature:
"LB" lower right comp., pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
Unique
Edition Information:
This unique variant is one of 13 that incorporates one or more plates from “Look Up!” seen in the States row in the Evolving Composition Diagram below. The plates are numbered according to their positions from top to bottom. Here, the composition is made up of plate 2.

Unique variants of the “Look Up!” plates are also found in the series of installation sets, “La Rivière Gentille” (1-3). They are organized in rows in the Evolving Composition Diagram below according to their combination of plates.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
Curatorial Remarks:
The title comes from a French children's song Bourgeois recorded with Brigitte Cornand. Cornand is a French filmmaker who worked closely with Bourgeois in the last years of her life. In 2002, Cornand released a documentary about the artist of the same title.
Descriptive Title:
English translation: "It Is the Whispering Water That Sings"
Description:
Soft ground etching, with watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil additions
Inscription:
"c'est le murmure de l'eau qui bout / c'est le murmure de l'eau qui chante / c'est le murmure de ta voix. ' qui m'
State Changes and Additions:
Matrices:
This composition is of plate 2 seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Look Up! ; La Rivière Gentille ; No. 7 in Nothing to Remember (set 1)

2004-2010

Plates 1-7
Plate 1 of 7 from Look Up!
Plate 2 of 7 from Look Up!
Plate 3 of 7 from Look Up!
Plate 4 of 7 from Look Up!
Plate 5 of 7 from Look Up!
Plate 6 of 7 from Look Up!
Plate 7 of 7 from Look Up!
States
Look Up!
Look Up!
Look Up!
Unique Variants
C'est le Murmure de l'Eau Qui Chante
Untitled, no. 7, in Nothing to Remember (set 1), from the series of folio sets (1-6)
La Pousse Bleue
Pregnant Woman
Les Trois
Les Cinq
Nous Deux
Nous Sommes Cinq
Look Up!! (#1)
Look Up!! (#2)
Look Up!! (#3)
Look Up!! (#4)
Look Up!! (#5)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 5 & 6
Untitled, no. 2 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 6 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 12 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 23 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 8 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 12 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 21 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 35 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 27 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 1 & 2
Untitled, no. 3 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 5 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 8 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 25 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 34 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 41 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 10 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 2 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 3 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 4 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 6 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 15 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 25 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 2 & 3
Untitled, no. 10 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 29 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 33 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 40 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 22 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 3 & 5
Untitled, no. 19 of 42 in La Rivière Gentille (set 1), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 28 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 1, 2 & 3
Untitled, no. 23 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 27 of 48 in La Rivière Gentille (set 2), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 24 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 2, 3 & 5
Untitled, no. 9 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 3, 5 & 6
Untitled, no. 26 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
Untitled, no. 29 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)
La Rivière Gentille pl. 2-3, 5-6
Untitled, no. 23 of 30 in La Rivière Gentille (set 3), from the series of installation sets (1-3)

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