Two overlapping facial profiles drawn with thin lines creating a single composite face within a square.

Prints

The Son Is Father to the Man

2000

Medium
Drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 1/8 × 12 in. (38.4 × 30.5 cm) Plate: 7 × 5 13/16 in. (17.8 × 14.8 cm)
Accession number
2003.151
Acquired
2003
Credit line
Gift of Louise Bourgeois, Carol Weaver, and Felix Harlan in honor of David W. Kiehl
Reproduction credit
© The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Edition
23/25
Publication
Printed and published by Harlan & Weaver
Department
collection

About this work

Louise Bourgeois, The Son Is Father to the Man, 2000. Drypoint, sheet: 15 1/8 × 12 in. (38.4 × 30.5 cm) Plate: 7 × 5 13/16 in. (17.8 × 14.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Louise Bourgeois, Carol Weaver, and Felix Harlan in honor of David W. Kiehl 2003.151. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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