Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

Cat. No. 663/A.2, variant

Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

State/Variant:
Component A: version 2 of 2, only state, variant
Date:
1999
Themes
Abstraction
Techniques
Relief
Support:
Thin, laid paper
Dimensions:
composition: 12 1/2 x 17 5/16" (31.8 x 44 cm); sheet: 12 1/2 x 17 5/16" (31.8 x 44 cm)
Signature:
"LB" right lower composition, red crayon.
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
SOLO Impression
Edition:
2 known variant impressions of version 2, only state, outside the edition
Edition Information:
Proof before the editioning of the only state.

The other known variant impression of version 2, outside the edition, is in MoMA's Collection (Accession Number: 1413.2008). It is not illustrated, due to its similarity to the published impression.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
The text in this series was taken from Bourgeois's diary entries, spanning some forty years. The images are based on drawings created in the 1990s. Printer Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression made photo-enlargements of the drawings and transferred them to letterpress plates.
Description:
Letterpress
State Changes and Additions:
State Changes:
Changes from version 1: negative image of composition transferred to new matrix, in letterpress.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
881.2008
This Work in Other Collections:
Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Modern, London
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day? , no. 5 of 9, from the series, What ...

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1998

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Component A, first version
Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Component A, second version
Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Component B
Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Diptych
Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

Series

1999

What Is the Shape of This Problem?

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