Cat. No. 58/IV, variant 2
Do Not Abandon Me
- State/Variant:
- State IV of VII, variant
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes:
- Figures, Motherhood & Family, Objects
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint, with selective wiping, and white gouache and blue and red ink additions
- Support:
- Slightly textured, thin, laid paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 15/16 × 9 15/16" (30.3 × 25.3 cm); sheet: 17 5/16 × 11 5/8" (44 × 29.5 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 3 known variant impressions of state IV
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of state VII.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state III in drypoint: woman and child added.
Additions in blue ink: necklace, anticipating state V; figures, umbilical cord, and chair reinforced. - Background:
- The imagery of this print relates to Bourgeois’s monumental sculptural installation for the inaugural exhibition in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2000. The installation consisted of “Maman,” a 30’ steel sculpture of a spider, and “I Do, I Undo, I Redo,” three steel towers ranging in height from 42' to 57'. Each tower contained a different sculpture of a mother and child inside a bell jar. The “Do Not Abandon Me” drypoint relates to the sculpture contained in the tower titled, “I Redo,” seen below in Related Works in Other Mediums.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 811.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Do Not Abandon Me
1999-2000
Source
1998
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Untitled (Chair)
Steel and glass
1998
Steel and glass
1998
States
State I of VII
1999
1999
State II of VII
1999
1999
State III of VII, variant
1999
1999
State III of VII, variant
1999
1999
State IV of VII, variant
1999
1999
State IV of VII, variant
1999
1999
State IV of VII, variant
1999
1999
State V of VII, variant
1999
1999
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
State V of VII, variant
1999
1999
State VI of VII
1999
1999
State VII of VII, variant
1999
1999
Published
State VII of VII
2000
2000
Published
State VII of VII
2000
2000
Published NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
State VII of VII
2000
2000
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
