NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1282
Hommage à Miro (#5)
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2008
- Descriptive Title:
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English translation: "Homage to Miro (#5)"
- Themes:
- Abstraction
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Etching, with watercolor, gouache, and ink additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 15 × 18" (38.1 × 45.7 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of the only state
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- This composition is made up of the plate for "Hommage à Miro (# 4)" (left) and the plate for "Hommage à Miro (#1)" (right). See both in Related Works in the Catalogue below.
- Background:
- Bourgeois befriended artist Joan Miró in 1947 through her participation at Atelier 17, the communal print workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, and transferred from Paris to New York during the war years.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The plate size and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Hommage à Miro (#3) and (#5)
2008
States
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Hommage à Miro (#3)
Only state
2008
Only state
2008
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Hommage à Miro (#5)
Only state
2008
Only state
2008
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
