LOUISE BOURGEOIS: COMPLETE BOOKS & PRINTS

Themes:

Abstraction

Techniques:

Lithography

Description:

Lithograph, with collage, and white and red gouache additions

Support:

Smooth, wove Fabriano paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 21.6 cm)

Signature:

"Louise Bourgeois" lower right sheet, pencil.

Publisher:

SOLO Impression, New York

Printer:

SOLO Impression, New York

Edition:

40; plus 12 A.P., 4 P.P., 4 T.P., 1 B.A.T.

Impression:

"A.P. 11" lower right composition, pencil, unknown hand.

State Changes and Additions:

Matrices:
This composition involved 2 lithography matrices.

Matrix 1: blue background.

Matrix 2: white concentric circles.

Background:

"Parkett" magazine approached Bourgeois with the suggestion of featuring her, with the artist Robert Gober, in one of its issues. This project was to be part of a series in which artists were paired, each being represented by a selection of reproductions and articles, as well as by a multiple work, which would be reproduced in the pages of the magazine and also available in a signed and limited special edition. Bourgeois proposed "Fabrication I," but it was not used. Other possible multiples were also considered by Bourgeois (see "Appointment at 11:00 am" and "The Age of Condom Come" in Related Works in the Catalogue below). Ultimately "Reparation" was issued in conjunction with "Parkett 27" in March 1991.

Curatorial Remarks:

The collaged element in this composition is the oblong pink shape in the center. Judith Solodkin, of SOLO Impression, New York, remembers that the paper was painted with pink gouache on both sides before it was cut and inserted into slits in the blue paper. The pink shape is meant to protrude slightly from the surface of the blue paper.

Although the title suggests more than one composition entitled "Fabrication," this is the only one.

MoMA Credit Line:

Gift of the artist and SOLO Impression

MoMA Accession Number:

32.1995

This Work in Other Collections:

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska

© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY