LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Alternate Title:

Where People Face Each Other in Judgment

Descriptive Title:

Girl and Parents

Themes:

Figures, Motherhood & Family, Objects

Techniques:

Drypoint

Description:

Drypoint, with pencil additions

Support:

Smooth, wove Hahnemühle paper

Dimensions:

plate: 13 11/16 x 16 13/16" (34.8 x 42.7 cm); sheet: 21 15/16 x 31" (55.8 x 78.8 cm)

Signature:

Not signed

Publisher:

unpublished

Printer:

Harlan & Weaver, New York

Edition:

2 known variant impressions of version 1, state I

Impression:

Not numbered

Edition Information:

Not issued as a published edition at any state.

The 3 impressions of varying states labeled "HC", in the artist's hand, are not conventional H.C. impressions, which would be included in an edition.

Background:

In the inscription on the verso of the second study illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, Bourgeois refers to Jean-Louis, one of her three sons.

Artist’s Remarks:

Inscription on the verso of the first study illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram below: "where people face each other in judgment, dinner table, impossible / to hide."

Inscription on the verso of the second study illustrated in the Evolving Composition Diagram below: "unique for Pat Slatt / print / the child is Jean Louis / the father is looking at Jean L Louis. / January 28 1998. NY / Rachel Cowan-"

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

783.2008

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY