Reaching

Cat. No. 597, variant 1

Reaching

State/Variant:
Only state, variant
Date:
1989
Themes
Abstraction
Techniques
Lithography
Support:
Smooth, wove Umbria paper
Dimensions:
composition: 11 15/16 x 10 1/16" (30.4 x 25.5 cm); sheet: 14 x 12 1/16" (35.5 x 30.7 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
SOLO Impression
Edition:
8 known impressions of the only state
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition.

Matrices:
This variant impression involved 2 lithography matrices.

Matrix 1: blue background.

Matrix 2: black composition.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
In the early stages of their working relationship, printer and publisher Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression, New York, brought Bourgeois two stones covered in black ink, with the hopes of encouraging her to work in lithography. Bourgeois worked on only one stone for this print.
Former Cat. No.:
W & S 87
Description:
Lithograph
Artist’s Remarks:
"These shapes 'have managed a little bit of reaching power. Instead of destroying themselves by strangling, or by wanting too much, they have reached over. It is very sweet. It is wishful thinking... it is a morning wish.'" (Quote cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 159.)

About the source drawing, 1968: "This is the toi and the moi. You see, the spirals seem to be isolated. They exist only through the fact that they are reaching." (Quote cited in Bourgeois, Louise and Lawrence Rinder. "Louise Bourgeois Drawings and Observations." Berkeley: University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive University of California, Berkeley; Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1995, p. 130.)
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
528.1993
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Reaching

1989

Source

1968

Untitled
States
Reaching
Reaching
Reaching

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Progression
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