Louise Bourgeois – The Reticent Child (Ex Libris) günther uecker atmospheric color

atmospheric color

Condition: Very good (with foxing along the margins)

Portrait with Shells

while the draped fabric within maintains the essential tension between revelation and mystery that has defined their monumental practice—from the wrapped storefronts of 1964 to the Reichstag and Pont Neuf of the 1990s

Louise Bourgeois – The Reticent Child (Ex Libris) günther uecker atmospheric colorLouise Bourgeois's The Reticent Child (Ex Libris) is a limited edition print created in 2005 as part of her late graphic practice. Produced as an offset print with embossing, the image presents an intimate depiction of pregnancy and childbirth, rendered with Bourgeois's characteristically fragile line and muted washes of color. Although executed as an offset print, Bourgeois deliberately had the sheet embossed so it would behave visually and tactilely