Cat. No. 667/A
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
- State/Variant:
- Component A: only state
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes:
- Abstraction, Spirals
- Techniques:
- Relief
- Description:
- Letterpress
- 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 an additional known impression of this composition, outside the edition, in MoMA's Collection (Accession Number: 1421.2008). It is not illustrated here due to its similarity to the impression seen here.
- 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:
- A tote bag merchandise item was made from this composition. The whole series was reproduced on a set of note cards as a merchandise item.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 135.2000.10a
- 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
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
1999
Source
2000
Component B
Series
1999
Louise Bourgeois,
What Is the Shape of This Problem?,
New York: Galerie Lelong, 1999No. 9 of 9
Art is a guaranty of sanity