Shooting Stars

Cat. No. 1057

Shooting Stars

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
1989
Themes
Nature
Techniques
Drypoint
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
plate: 9 x 6 3/4" (22.8 x 17.1 cm); sheet: 19 1/2 × 14 1/8" (49.5 × 35.8 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Harlan & Weaver
Edition:
4 known impressions of the only state
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
In the late 1980s, when publisher Peter Blum began the portfolio project "Anatomy" with Bourgeois, he sought the assistance of printer Judith Solodkin, of SOLO Impression, a longtime friend of the artist. Solodkin suggested Harlan & Weaver as intaglio printers and she served as supervisor for this project and a number of individual prints at that time, among these, "Ambition," "Meteorology," "Tops," Untitled, and "To Hide," all seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue.
Former Cat. No.:
W & S 94
Description:
Drypoint
Artist’s Remarks:
"The spiral has reached too far... it is limitless... pie in the sky. It bursts... it explodes... you lose everything." (Quote cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 164)
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
545.1993
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Shooting Stars

1989

States
Shooting Stars

Related Works in the Catalogue

Untitled
Les Étoiles
To Hide
Tops
Untitled
Meteorology
Anatomy
Ambition
You Are My Polar Star

Related Works in Other Mediums

Polar Star
Polar Stars