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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.235
People
Louise Bourgeois, American (Paris, France 1911 - 2010 New York, NY)
Title
Drawing No. 4; verso: Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305820

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on gray-green laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 24.5 x 39.8 cm (9 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, center r.: Bourgeois
  • inscription: verso, u.l., red pencil: [encircled:] 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1956, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© The Easton Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.235
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Recto has erasure at l.l.-- maybe have been done for texture? Pinholes at upper corners.

Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 8, fig. 105, p. 306, 308, 376

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003
  • Bourgeois in Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 03/28/2007 - 05/20/2007

Verification Level

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