Louise Bourgeois. In the Distance (1989-2003)

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Louise Bourgeois. In the Distance. 1989-2003

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Cat. No. 1015.2

In the Distance

State/Variant:: Version 2 of 2, only state
Date:: 1989-2003

Themes:: Architecture
Techniques:: Etching
Description:: Etching
Support:: Arches paper, mounted on Dieu Donné paper
Dimensions:: plate (trimmed; approx.): 35 3/4 × 8 3/16" (90.8 × 20.8 cm); mount: 41 3/4 × 12 5/8" (106 × 32.1 cm)
Signature:: "Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Inscription:: Verso: "In the distance. / etching / 2/3" lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
Publisher:: Osiris, New York
Printer:: Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Edition:: 3; plus an illustrated book edition of 12
Impression:: Verso: "2/3" lower center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
Edition Information:: A separate edition of this composition was published as part of an illustrated book titled, "One's Sleep." The illustrated book includes 18 plates with hand additions. (See Evolving Composition Diagram.)
State Changes and Additions:: Changes from version 1: mirrored composition transferred, with much taller structure, in etching.
Background:: This composition was initially developed around 1989 in conjunction with Benjamin Shiff, director of Osiris, as a preliminary trial for the book project "the puritan" (see below in Related Works in the Catalogue) although it did not ultimately appear in that book. Bourgeois and Shiff returned to the composition in 2003, creating a second version to issue in this edition of 3, and to include in the book "One's Sleep".
Artist’s Remarks:: "There is a hinging of the landscape here that makes it both vertical and horizontal. There can be a change of mood... when it is up, it is very alert... when it is down it can be restful.

"But I would call it today the eternal road that goes nowhere... it is very empty... it is melancholy. It is like the long road from Paris to the south. We were on that road all the time to go south for my mother's health. It reminds me of Camus, who died on that road... he was young.

"The house is a museum, lycée, jail, or hospital. It is an institution, because that is the style in France... an architecture of a certain kind. This is the public life versus the private life. In other things you are a private person, here you become a citizen... you have to wait your turn... there are many people in front of you." (Quotes cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 154.)
Curatorial Remarks:: The sheet for this composition has been trimmed down to the plate mark and mounted on thick paper.
MoMA Credit Line:: Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:: 701.2006