Cat. No. 666/A/I
To Unravel a Torment You Must Begin Somewhere, no. 8 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
- State/Variant:
- Component A: state I of II
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes:
- Abstraction
- Techniques:
- Relief
- Description:
- Letterpress
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- composition: 12 3/16 x 15 15/16" (31 x 40.5 cm); sheet: 12 3/16 x 17 1/16" (31 x 43.3 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- SOLO Impression, New York
- Edition:
- 1 known impression of state I
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of state II.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices, component A:
Plate 1: overall composition; letterpress, printed in light red.
Plate 2: overall composition; lithography, printed in dark red. - 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:
- 1418.2008
- 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
To Unravel a Torment You Must Begin Somewhere, no. 8 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of...
1999
Source
1998
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Confusion
Ink on paper
1998
Ink on paper
1998
Component A
Component A: state I of II
1999
1999
Published
Component A: state II of II
1999
1999
Component B
Published
Component B: state II of II
1999
1999
Diptych
Published
Component A: state II of II; component B: only state
1999
1999
Series
1999
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
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NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
