Avenza 1969 — Fine Art

Avenza 1969 by Louise Bourgeois keeps the lettering and forms you would expect from her late prints. The image reads as a set of written signs and soft drawn shapes on a pale sheet. From the far end of a hall the letters stay clear, and up near the glass you notice the small shifts in the ink.

The finish is a fine art print with a white frame around the sheet. That white edge sits against the pale ground without hiding the shapes. You see the print as a single object on the wall, not as loose paper hanging loose.

On a bedroom wall near a low lamp the letters settle into the corner, and the white frame keeps the picture from spreading into the plaster. From the chair you read the marks one by one.