NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 1115
Mother and Child
- State/Variant:
- Only state
- Date:
- 2004
- Themes:
- Body Parts, Figures, Motherhood & Family
- Techniques:
- Etching
- Description:
- Soft ground etching, with colored pencil additions
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 18 3/16 × 17 1/4" (46.2 × 43.8 cm); sheet: 29 × 21" (73.7 × 53.3 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher:
- Osiris, New York
- Printer:
- Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
- Edition:
- 2 known impressions of the only state, outside the illustrated book edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- This composition is included in the illustrated book "Hang On."
About the "Hang On" illustrated book edition:
Of the announced edition of 9 unbound and 12 bound, only 9 unbound examples were realized.
There are varying hand additions across the edition of illustrated books. Impression number 5/9 was also available for examination by MoMA cataloguers, but was not available for reproduction. In that example, plate 5 has red crayon, red pencil, pencil, and gray watercolor wash additions. - Curatorial Remarks:
- The 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








