Jitterbug

Cat. No. 3

Jitterbug

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
1998
Alternate Title:
Jitterbugging Spiders
Themes
Music, Spiders
Techniques
Lithography
Support:
Smooth, wove Rives paper
Dimensions:
composition: 17 1/2 x 22 3/4" (44.5 x 57.8cm); sheet: 18 3/16 x 24 1/8" (46.2 x 61.2 cm)
Signature:
"LB" lower right comp., pencil.
Publisher
Artists Space
Printer
SOLO Impression
Edition:
50; plus 19 A.P., 4 P.P., 4 T.P., 1 B.A.T.
Edition Information:
There is 1 known unnumbered impression with the full signature "Louise Bourgeois" (versus "LB" as seen here) at the lower right of the composition. It is not known if that impression is among the P.P., T.P, or B.A.T. impressions listed in the edition.
Impression:
"AP2" left lower comp., pencil, unknown hand.
Background:
Artists Space is a non-profit alternative exhibition venue and center for discussion on contemporary art. It was founded in 1972 as a pilot project for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), to provide a setting in which visual artists not affiliated with commercial galleries could show their work. Bourgeois was a Board member from 1997 to 2010.
Curatorial Remarks:
Bourgeois's use of music paper as a support for drawings goes back to the early 1940s. Judith Solodkin, of SOLO Impression, used lithography to create archival music paper of a particular size for this edition.
Description:
Lithograph
Benefit Work:
For Artists Space, New York.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
132.2000
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Jitterbug

1998

Source

1997

Spiders
Studies
Jitterbug
States
Jitterbug

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