Louise Bourgeois. Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? (1999)

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Louise Bourgeois. Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999

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Cat. No. 667/B

Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

State/Variant:: Component B: only state
Date:: 1999

Themes:: Words
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 are 2 known variant impressions of the only state, outside the edition.
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:: 135.2000.10b
This Work in Other Collections:: Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Modern, London