Cat. No. 58/IV, variant 1
Do Not Abandon Me
- State/Variant:
- State IV of VII, variant
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes:
- Figures, Motherhood & Family, Objects
- Techniques:
- Drypoint
- Description:
- Drypoint,with selective wiping, and black ink additions
- Support:
- Slightly textured, thin, laid paper
- Dimensions:
- plate: 11 13/16 x 9 15/16" (30 x 25.2 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.6 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher:
- unpublished
- Printer:
- Harlan & Weaver, New York
- Edition:
- 3 known variant impressions of state IV
- Impression:
- Not numbered
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of state VII.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state III in drypoint: woman and child added.
Additions in black ink: woman and child reinforced, anticipating state V. - Background:
- The imagery of this print relates to Bourgeois’s monumental sculptural installation for the inaugural exhibition in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2000. The installation consisted of “Maman,” a 30’ steel sculpture of a spider, and “I Do, I Undo, I Redo,” three steel towers ranging in height from 42' to 57'. Each tower contained a different sculpture of a mother and child inside a bell jar. The “Do Not Abandon Me” drypoint relates to the sculpture contained in the tower titled, “I Redo,” seen below in Related Works in Other Mediums.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 810.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY