Boxwood 6PM

Louise Bourgeois · c. 1945, reprinted 1990

Before you is Boxwood 6PM — a print by the American artist Louise Bourgeois, around nineteen forty-five, reprinted nineteen ninety. An etching: the plate is covered in wax, drawn through with a needle, and the acid does the cutting.

Medium Etching · Dimensions plate: 11 15/16 × 4 3/4" (30.4 × 12 cm); sheet: 17 5/16 × 12 7/8" (44 × 32.7 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 522: Diary of a Seducer, Untitled (Bébé Marie)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: A Happy New Year, Retrospective Bust of a Woman, Untitled (Bébé Marie), Untitled, Duplicate of The Bride (supplementary suite, plate 4) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Apartment

More by Louise Bourgeois here: Les Trois Fées, Les Trois Fées, Three Graces, Hair, Sleeping Figure, Man Reading