NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1454 (multiple)
The Curved House
- Date:
- 2010
- Themes:
- Architecture, Body Parts
- Techniques:
- Other
- Description:
- Multiple of marble
- Dimensions:
- overall: 4 3/4 × 8 1/4 × 2 3/4" (12.1 × 21 × 7 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" incised on the side.
- Publisher:
- Carolina Nitsch Editions, New York
- Edition:
- 12; plus 3 A.P.
- Impression:
- "1/12" incised on the bottom.
- Benefit Work:
- For Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Background:
- The Whitney Museum of American Art is the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States. The Museum presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection. The Museum's signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country's leading survey of the most recent developments in American art.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- This multiple was manufactured by Nicoli & Lyndam Sculptures S.r.l. in Carrara, Italy. Bourgeois went to Pietrasanta and Carrara to work on her marble sculptures starting in 1967 and up until the late 1980s.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY








