Louise Bourgeois

Blue Dress

1998

A blue dress reveals navy skeletal bones and a single pink human leg extending downward.
A blue dress reveals navy skeletal bones and a single pink human leg extending downward.

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Date
1998

Classification
Prints

Medium
Drypoint and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet: 39 × 28 in. (99.1 × 71.1 cm) Plate: 29 15/16 × 21 3/4 in. (76 × 55.3 cm)

Accession number
98.23.8

Edition
1/28| 12 APs, 3 PPs, 1 HC, 1 BAT

Publication
Printed by Harlan & Weaver; published by Julie Sylvester Cabot; published by Whitney Museum of American Art Editions

Credit line
Gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

API
artworks/11740

Part of a series:
Topiary. The Art of Improving Nature
9 works

A simple line drawing of a coat and one leg with bright red elbow and thigh patches.
Sketch of a person with one crutch and a missing left leg, red patches at shoulder and thigh.
A simple line drawing of a coat on a mannequin with a prosthetic leg and red sleeve patch.
A blue dress reveals navy skeletal bones and a single pink human leg extending downward.
A black ink drawing of a tree with circular scribbled foliage and a small hanging fruit.
Two legs wearing heeled shoes surrounded by long, rounded abstract forms.
A red crutch leans against a tall scribbled tree with round, tangled foliage.
A stylized tree drawn with dense looping scribbles forming trunk, round foliage, and exposed roots.
A large fanciful tree with round foliage and a nude figure embracing its trunk at the base.

Louise Bourgeois
32 works in the collection, 33 exhibitions

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