BOURGEOIS (Louise). Ode à ma mère. Paris, les éditions du So - Lot 86

BOURGEOIS (Louise). Ode à ma mère. Paris, les éditions du Solstice, 1995. In-4 square, first edition, illustrated with 9 drypoints by Louise Bourgeois, each justified and monogrammed in pencil. Limited edition of 125 numbered and signed copies, this one no. 73, one of 90 nominative copies reserved for Éditions du Solstice members. First edition of Louise Bourgeois's major work, written as a tribute to her mother, who died when the artist was just 21, and represented in the figure of the spider. "The spider is my mother, both victims of their fragility and smallness, the coquettishness of the lace counterpointing the web" (Louise Bourgeois: sculptures, environnements, dessins, 1938-1995, p. 218).