NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Cat. No. 361, variant 1
A Fly Caught in a Person's Thought
- State/Variant:
- Only state, variant
- Date:
- c. 2004
- Themes:
- Fabric Works, Words
- Techniques:
- Lithography
- Description:
- Lithograph
- Support:
- Fabric
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 9 x 11 1/4" (22.9 x 28.6 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" right lower sheet, stitched in red thread.
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- SOLO Impression, New York
- Edition:
- 2 known variant impressions, outside the edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- The 2 variants are considerably smaller in width than the editioned impressions, and one has a geometric pattern in the fabric.
- Background:
- The text in this composition comes from Bourgeois's voluminous writings—in her diaries, on loose sheets, or on the verso of drawings. The specific source and date of this text are not known.
During the early 2000s, Bourgeois worked with SOLO Impression on the editioned version of "Ode à l'oubli," a book of fabric collages and two lithographed text pages. The phrases on those text pages came from her writings. Inspired by that collaboration, Bourgeois created several individual printed fabric works with lithographed texts.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
A Fly Caught in a Person's Thought
c. 2004
States
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Only state, variant
c. 2004
c. 2004
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Only state, variant
c. 2004
c. 2004
Published
Only state
c. 2004
c. 2004
