Cat. No. 405/V
Mosquito
- State/Variant:
- State V of V
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes
- Animals & Insects, Motherhood & Family
- Techniques
- Drypoint
- Support:
- Smooth, wove Hahnemühle paper
- Dimensions:
- sheet: 17 3/16 x 15 1/16" (43.7 x 38.3 cm); plate: 11 15/16 x 9 15/16" (30.4 x 25.2 cm)
- Signature:
- "Louise Bourgeois 1999" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher
- Harlan & Weaver
- Printer
- Harlan & Weaver
- Edition:
- 25; plus 7 A.P., 5 P.P., 1 B.A.T., 1 H.C., 1 T.P.
- Edition Information:
- There is 1 known impression of state V, outside the edition, in MoMA's Collection (Accession Number 918.2008). It is not illustrated, due to its similarity to the impression seen here.
- Impression:
- "AP 6/7" lower left margin, pencil, unknown hand.
- Background:
- According to the artist’s assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, Bourgeois began this composition by tracing an illustration from a book in her collection. The book had once been part of the inventory for Erasmus Books and Prints, the shop she opened for a brief period in the late 1950s.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- Publisher Harlan & Weaver groups the editioned state of this composition with ten other drypoints of 1999, under the title, “11 Drypoints.” Each of the 11 compositions can be displayed individually. The full set is as follows:
“The Accident”
“The Angry Cat”
“Don’t Put Your Foot in Your Mouth”
“Fear”
“Feet (Socks)”
“Fences Are Obsolete”
“Madeleine”
“Mosquito”
“Mother and Child”
“Please Hang in There”
“The Smell of the Feet” - Description:
- Drypoint
- State Changes and Additions:
- Changes from state IV, in drypoint: right breast further delineated.
- Bibliography:
- Malbert, Roger, and Juliet Mitchell. "Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints." London: Hayward, 2016. (Catalogue accompanying the touring exhibition "Louise Bourgeois Prints: Autobiographical Series and 11 Drypoints".)
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 23.2002
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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State V of V
1999
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Mosquito
1999
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1999
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Mosquito
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Not in MoMA's Collection
Mosquito
1999
Medium: Colored pencil on paper
Dimensions: sheet: 11 x 8 1/2" (27.9 x 21.6 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
States
State I of V
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
State II of V
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
State II of V, variant
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
State III of V
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
State III of V, variant
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
State IV of V
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
Published
State V of V
1999
<i>Mosquito</i>
1999
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State II of III
1999
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