NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 287/IV (fabric)
Untitled
- State/Variant:
- State IV of IV
- Date:
- 2004
- Descriptive Title:
-
Hand Holding Tree
- Themes:
- Body Parts, Fabric Works, Nature
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint
- Support:
- Fabric
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 13/16 x 11 13/16" (30 x 30 cm); sheet: 15 1/4 x 15 1/4" (38.7 x 38.7 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" lower right margin, stitched in red thread.
- Publisher:
- The artist
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 25
- Impression:
- "22/25" verso, unknown hand.
- Edition Information:
- There is 1 known variant impression of state IV, outside the edition.
Dimensions throughout the edition vary slightly because of hemming and stretching fluctuations. All sheet edges have a frayed appearance. - State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state III in drypoint: many leaves enlarged.
- Background:
- Bourgeois created this composition, editioned on fabric, as a holiday print for a selected, small group of friends. In the same year, 2004, she also created the untitled (Holiday Laurel) edition on paper as a holiday print for a larger group of friends.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The plate dimensions of this impression and the medium of the impression number inscription could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's collection and could not be examined in person. The plate dimensions given are from another impression.
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