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Louise Bourgeois

He Disappeared into Complete Silence, Plate 1, 1947

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Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 20 x 6.51 cm (7 7/8 x 2 9/16 in.)

sheet: 25.4 x 17.78 cm (10 x 7 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner

Catalogue Raisonné

Wye/Smith 1994, 29.2, III/III

Accession Number

2010.132.1

Artists / Makers

Louise Bourgeois (artist) American, born France, 1911 - 2010

Atelier 17 (printer)

Gemor Press (publisher)

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Plate 1; lower right in graphite: L. Bourgeois

Provenance

(Cheim & Read, New York); purchased by NGA, 2011

Associated Names

Cheim & Read

Exhibition History

2015: Louise Bourgeois: No Exit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015 - 2016, unnumbered catalogue.

2015: Louise Bourgeois: No Exit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015-2016.

Bibliography

1994: Deborah Wye and Carol Smith. The Prints of Louise Bourgeois. New York, 1994: 77.

2011: Brodie, Judith. "Louise Bourgeois, He Disappeared into Complete Silence." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 45 (Fall 2011): 21.

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