LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Abstraction

Techniques:

Lithography, Relief

Description:

Letterpress and lithograph, with gouache additions

Support:

Smooth, wove Arches paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 12 × 17" (30.5 × 43.2 cm)

Signature:

"LB" right lower sheet, pencil.

Publisher:

Galerie Lelong, Paris,
Galerie Lelong, New York

Printer:

SOLO Impression, New York

Edition:

See diptych in Evolving Composition Diagram below.

Impression:

"AP 2" left lower sheet, pencil, unknown hand.

Edition Information:

There is 1 known variant impression of the only state, outside the edition.

State Changes and Additions:

Matrices, component A:
Plate 1: overall composition; letterpress, printed in gray.
Plate 2: small center dot; lithography, printed in red.

Background:

The text in this series was taken from Bourgeois's diary entries, spanning some forty years. The images are based on drawings created in the 1990s. Printer Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression made photo-enlargements of the drawings and transferred them to letterpress plates.

Installation Remarks:

Each diptych in this series constitutes a single composition and must be exhibited in a vertical configuration as illustrated, or alternatively, with the text on top of the image. The diptychs in the series may be exhibited together or separately, and there is no required sequence.

Curatorial Remarks:

This series was reproduced on a set of note cards as a merchandise item. A tote bag merchandise item was made from no. 9.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Accession Number:

135.2000.5a

This Work in Other Collections:

Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Modern, London

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY