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Cat. No. 408, study
Untitled (Study for Dancing Insect)
- State/Variant:
- Study
- Date:
- 2003
- Themes:
- Animals & Insects, Motherhood & Family
- Techniques:
- Other
- Description:
- Photocopy
- Support:
- Smooth paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 13 1/8 x 11" (33.3 x 27.9 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Edition:
- 1 known photocopy study
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Background:
- According to the artist's assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, Bourgeois began this composition by tracing an illustration from a book in her collection. The book had once been part of the inventory of Erasmus Books and Prints, the shop she opened for a brief period in the late 1950s.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- Without being able to examine it in person, it appears that the study is a color photocopy of state III of III, variant. Bourgeois made the photocopy in 2003, several years after she discontinued work on the "Dancing Insect" prints.
- Other Remarks:
- According to Bourgeois's assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, the three eggs in the lower left composition refer to Louise's three children and the insect is a self portrait of the artist.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Dancing Insect
1999-2003
States
State I of III
1999
1999
State II of III
1999
1999
State III of III
1999
1999
State III of III, variant
1999
1999
Studies
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION
Study
2003
2003
