1998.235: Drawing No. 4; verso: Untitled

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

Permissions

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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

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