Three Graces

Louise Bourgeois · 1948

You're looking at Three Graces — a print by Bourgeois, nineteen forty-eight. It's engraving, with scorper and monotype, about 17 by 14 centimeters. In the picture, look for the abstract shapes.

Medium Engraving, with scorper and monotype · Dimensions plate: 6 13/16 × 5 7/16" (17.3 × 13.8 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 × 6 15/16" (25 × 17.6 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 402: Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Personage, with Yellow Ochre and White

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Leaves and Navels, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Enak's Tears (Terrestrial Forms), Encounter, Laocoön, Portuguese Market

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