
Paris Review
A hauntingly intimate print, Louise Bourgeois's *Paris Review* combines the delicate tonal richness of aquatint with the incisive, gestural lines of drypoint, further animated by stenciled additions in white acrylic that emerge like luminous marks against the shadowed surface. The work reflects Bourgeois's lifelong preoccupation with memory, the body, and psychological tension, rendered here through a process of accumulation and revision across eight states. Produced on Somerset paper with full margins, the print possesses a quiet monumentality, the generous borders framing the image as though holding something fragile and deeply personal at a careful distance.
- Medium
- Aquatint and drypoint with stencil additions in white acrylic, the 8th (final) state, on Somerset paper, with full margins,
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Evening & Day Editions
April 25, 2016
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