Louise Bourgeois. Insomnia, frontispiece, from the illustrated book, Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings (2000)

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Louise Bourgeois. Insomnia, frontispiece, from the illustrated book, Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings. 2000

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Cat. No. 125.2, variant 3

Insomnia, frontispiece, from the illustrated book, Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings

State/Variant:: Version 2 of 2, only state, variant
Date:: 2000

Themes:: Body Parts, Faces & Portraits, Objects
Techniques:: Drypoint
Description:: Drypoint
Support:: Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:: plate: 9 3/8 x 7" (23.8 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 15 15/16 x 11 5/16" (40.5 x 28.7 cm)
Signature:: Not signed
Publisher:: unpublished
Printer:: Harlan & Weaver, New York
Edition:: 4 known impressions of version 2, only state, outside the editions
Impression:: Not numbered
Edition Information:: Proof before the editioning of version 2, only state.

Three of the 4 known impressions of version 2, only state, outside the editions, are variants, one (978.2008) is not.
State Changes and Additions:: Changes from version 1: composition re-drawn on a smaller plate, with slight variations overall.
Background:: In 1994-95, Bourgeois, who was plagued by insomnia, created a series of 220 works on paper during sleepness nights. She kept them together as a group, calling them, "The Insomnia Drawings." The dealer and publisher Peter Blum mounted the first exhibition of this series during the Basel Art Fair in June 1995. Later, the Daros Collection of Zurich, Switzerland, purchased the series and decided to reproduce them in a two-volume book called, "Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings," which was published in 2000. The first volume contains facsimiles of both the recto and verso of the 220 drawings. The second volume is comprised of a foreward by Stephan Schmidheiny, texts by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Elisabeth Bronfen, a chronology, and a checklist, transcriptions, and notes.This two-volume work was published by Daros, Zurich, in collaboration with Peter Blum Edition, New York, and Scalo, Zurich, Berlin, New York.
For a special limited edition of this two-volume work, a drypoint entitled "Insomnia" was selected to serve as a bound-in frontispiece in the first volume. Since the selected drypoint was too large for this purpose, it was reworked in a second version, at a reduced size.
MoMA Credit Line:: Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:: 976.2008
This Work in Other Collections:: Tate Modern, London