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 Dieu Donné paper, mounted on Arches
- Dimensions:
- plate: 9 5/16 × 5 7/8" (23.7 × 15 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 3/8" (40 × 28.9 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 7/8" lower left sheet verso, pencil, artist's hand.
- 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:
- This composition was printed on a separate, smaller sheet and mounted to the sheet seen here.
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