Cat. No. 1006
Obsession or Confusion?
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes:
- Words
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Soft ground etching, with red and pink pencil, white gouache, and pencil additions
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 17 3/8 × 18 3/8" (44.2 × 46.7 cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 24 7/16" (54.9 x 62 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 15
- Impression:
- Verso: "study 6/15" lower right sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
- Edition Information:
- The hand additions on this composition vary slightly across the edition. For comparison, see a different impression in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
In this edition, Bourgeois and the publisher designated each impression as a "study." However, throughout the catalogue, the term "study" describes photocopies and tracings that were used in the process of developing a composition. - MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 712.2006
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY




