Mind Your Own Business

Cat. No. 1129

Mind Your Own Business

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
1995
Themes
Abstraction, Motherhood & Family
Techniques
Engraving, Etching
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
plate: 9 7/8 x 11 15/16" (25.1 x 30.3 cm); sheet: 11 1/8 × 17 11/16" (28.2 × 45 cm)
Signature:
"LB" lower right margin, red ink.
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Louise Bourgeois
Edition:
1 known impression of the only state
Edition Information:
Not issued as a published edition.
Impression:
Not numbered
Descriptive Title:
Oval with Four Heads
Description:
Etching and engraving, with blue ink additions
Artist’s Remarks:
Inscribed on the verso of the source drawing: "Friendly Warning: / Titre mind your own business. / or else. I will trip you. whenever I can, / or no matter how long it takes. Reference to: the loving wife (the jealous wife) Bibi Lola de St. Malo. / La peur des plumes et du cri, enoncer proprement. / Reference to the stuffed effigies: du 27 juillet 1995 samedi [sketch of a shirt and skirt] pink lady }. / une effigie qui devient un fetish / De ne démunir de mes outils n’est difficile, outils ou matériaux. / J’ai eu le courage de sacrifier tout mon trousseau / de lamé de plume de crue et de fourrure à cause de leur courte durée / bouffer des mites / the purpose of a bag is to fit neatly into another bag [Along left side:] / There is a sudden and total change of mood from Happy to depressed / why, why, why, why, why.—no visible explanation."
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
641.1996
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Mind Your Own Business

1995

Source

1995

Mind Your Own Business
States
Mind Your Own Business

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