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LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Louise Bourgeois: Complete Books & Prints
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Cat. No. 1256

Differentiate

Date:
2009
Themes:
Abstraction, Fabric Works
Techniques:
Etching
Description:
Series of 4 compositions: 8 soft ground etchings, with watercolor, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and pencil additions
Support:
See individual.
Dimensions:
Plate and sheet sizes vary. See individual.
Signature:
See individual.
Publisher:
Osiris, New York
Printer:
Wingate Studio, Hinsdale, NH
Edition:
Unique
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
Installation Remarks:
This series of 4 compositions constitutes a single work of art. All of these compositions are to be exhibited together in the indicated sequence.
Curatorial Remarks:
The hand additions and paper type on individual sheets throughout the series could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The plate dimensions are from impressions in MoMA's Collection. The overall mediums and sheet dimensions for the series were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.

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  • NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 1 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
    Untitled, no. 1 of 4, from the...
    Only state, unique variant
    2009
    Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 1 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
  • NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 2 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
    Untitled, no. 2 of 4, from the...
    Unique variant
    2009
    Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 2 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
  • NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 3 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
    Untitled, no. 3 of 4, from the...
    2009
    Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 3 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
  • NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 4 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009
    Untitled, no. 4 of 4, from the...
    Unique variant
    2009
    Louise Bourgeois. Untitled, no. 4 of 4, from the series, Differentiate. 2009

Louise Bourgeois,

Differentiate,

New York, Osiris, 2009

Bourgeois's entire text for this series appears on the panels cited below.

No. 1:
Differentiate
a story by
Louise Bourgeois
Differentiate
a story
by Louise Bourgeois

No. 2:
In the morning
you come out
of the bumpy
night
you are on the other side
you have the strength
and energy
to remedy

No. 3:
You have the
need to
put things
in order
To tidy up
to collect
to repair

No. 4:
To sort out
to begin to
differentiate