La tapisserie de mon enfance—montains in Aubusson (The Tapestry of My Childhood—Mountains in Aubusson), 1947

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Medium

brush and black ink with gouache on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 48.26 × 30.48 cm (19 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)

Accession Number

2014.136.212

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

upper center verso in graphite: To Mercedes and the / New York Studio School - 1973. / La tapisserie de mon enfance - / montains in Aubusson - / drawing: 1947; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: N

Provenance

The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Honorable William H.G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, a

Exhibition History

2015: Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015

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

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 207, no. 1395.