Les Trois Fées

Louise Bourgeois · 1948

Here we have Les Trois Fées — a print by the American artist Louise Bourgeois, nineteen forty-eight. An engraving, cut directly into metal with a burin, so every line tapers as the hand pushes and lifts.

Medium Engraving, with scorper, and hand additions · Dimensions plate: 6 13/16 × 5 7/16" (17.3 × 13.8 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 × 6" (25 × 15.3 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 402: Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby, Untitled photographs from an untitled album with a sonnet by Edwin Denby

More by Louise Bourgeois here: Les Trois Fées, Three Graces, Hair, Sleeping Figure, Man Reading, Boxwood 6PM