NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1113
Couple
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes:
- Figures
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with white gouache, black ink, and pencil additions
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 5 7/8 × 9 5/16" (15 × 23.7 cm); sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4" (25.1 × 34.9 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower middle margin, pencil.
- Inscription:
- "Couple" left lower margin, pencil, artist's hand.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 8
- Impression:
- "Study 6/8" verso.
- Edition Information:
- This plate was issued as 2 separate editions, and in an illustrated book, all listed below.
Editions:
"Couple"
"Femme"
Illustrated book:
"Hang On"
About the "Couple" and "Femme" editions:
The hand additions vary from impression to impression. For comparison within each edition, see multiple impressions in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
In both editions, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a study. (Usually in this catalogue, the term study describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition.) - Curatorial Remarks:
- Unlike the rest of the edition, this composition was not printed on a separate, smaller sheet and mounted to a larger sheet. It was instead printed directly on the sheet seen here.
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