The Prints of Louise Bourgeois

The 1994 catalogue of prints by Louise Bourgeois contains entries for 150 compositions and their evolving states and variants. In all, that represents some 600 printed sheets created by the artist between 1938 and 1993. Most of these works are in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and were donated by the artist beginning in 1990, when she decided to give an archive of her printed work to the Museum. From the time that catalogue was issued until her death in 2010, Bourgeois spent considerable time on printmaking and continued donating to the Museum an example of every composition, along with many related states and variants.