Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

b.1911

He Disappeared into Complete Silence (MoMA 1229)

The complete portfolio, comprising ten engravings over photogravure with drypoint and aquatint, six with handcoloring, plus one engraving with drypoint, 1947-2005, with a foreword by Deborah Wye, each print initialed in pencil and inscribed with the plate number, signed in pencil on the colophon and numbered 25/30 (total edition includes 12 artist's proofs), on wove Rives BFK paper, with the title and text pages from the 1947 edition, published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, contained in the original linen-covered portfolio case (11 prints)

sheets: 255 by 172 mm 10 by 6 ¾ in