Cat. No. 667/B, variant 1
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, variant
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes:
- Words
- Techniques:
- Relief
- Description:
- Letterpress
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- composition: 9 5/8 x 7 7/8" (24.5 x 20 cm); sheet: 12 x 17" (30.5 x 43.2 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- SOLO Impression, New York
- Edition:
- 2 known variant impressions of the only state, outside the edition
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of the only state.
- 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.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1419.2008
- 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
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Les Concentriques et Les Spirales?
Ink on paper
2000
Ink on paper
2000
Component A
Published
Component A: only state
1999
1999
Component B
Component B: only state, variant
1999
1999
Component B: only state, variant
1999
1999
Published
Component B: only state
1999
1999
Diptych
Published
Components A and B: only state
1999
1999
Series
1999
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