Inner Life

Cat. No. 602.1

Inner Life

State/Variant:
Version 1 of 2, only state
Date:
1984
Themes
Abstraction, Animals & Insects, Nature
Techniques
Lithography
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
composition: 12 3/8 x 8 1/4" (31.5 x 21 cm); sheet: 17 15/16 x 11 3/16" (45 x 28.4 cm)
Signature:
"Louise Bourgeois" lower right margin, pencil.
Publisher
Galerie Maeght Lelong
Printer
Atelier Lelong
Edition:
100 plus several of A.P. and H.C.
Edition Information:
The publisher was consulted and does not have records of the exact number of signed A.P. and H.C. impressions.

Version 2 of this composition was published in 1985.
Impression:
"25/100" lower left margin, pencil, unknown hand.
Background:
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris, issued a signed edition of version 1 in conjunction with the 1984 exhibition "Louise Bourgeois Retrospective 1947-84." The following year, version 2 was issued in an edition with printed signature and was included in the exhibition catalogue, which was released as part of a Galerie Maeght Lelong publication series: "repères: cahiers d'art contemporain, no. 19."

The composition "Sheaves," seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue, was also issued in 2 corresponding editions for the aforementioned exhibition.
Former Cat. No.:
W & S 78
Description:
Photolithograph
Artist’s Remarks:
"This is like a snake plant ... darting from one place to another. It is full of sproutings that point up ... that will start others. It has a fantastic inner life ... ready to spring ... so impetuous and strong, but also erratic ... At the right is a little animal, a yellow jacket. A yellow jacket can smell fear. If it is attacked, or thinks it will be attacked, it will dart." (Quote cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 152.)
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
258.1992
This Work in Other Collections:
Albertina, Vienna
Rowan University Art Gallery, Sylvia Sleigh Collection, NJ
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Inner Life

1984-1985

Source

1953

Untitled (Inner Life)
First Version
Inner Life
Second Version
Inner Life

Related Works in the Catalogue

My Inner Life
Ascension Lente
Les Mollusques
Les Trois Fées
Sheaves

Related Works in Other Mediums

Figure Voile
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled