Cat. No. 662/A, variant
I Pick on Everyone, Dead or Alive, no. 4 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
- State/Variant:
- Component A: only state, variant
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes
- Abstraction
- Techniques
- Lithography, Relief
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- composition: 12 x 15 15/16" (30.5 x 40.5 cm); sheet: 12 x 17" (30.5 x 43.2 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher
- unpublished
- Printer
- SOLO Impression
- Edition:
- 1 known variant impression of the only state, outside the edition
- Edition Information:
- Proof before the editioning of the only state.
- 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 and lithograph, with gouache additions
- State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices, component A:
Plate 1: overall composition; letterpress, printed in gray.
Plate 2: small center dot; lithography, printed in red. - MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1412.2008
- 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
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Component A: only state, variant
1999
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I Pick on Everyone, Dead or Alive , no. 4 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This ...
1999
Source
1998
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled
1998
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled
1998
Medium: Pencil and ink on paper
Dimensions: sheet: 9 × 11 7/8" (22.9 × 30.2 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Component A
Component B
Diptych
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Untitled
2001
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled
2001
Medium: Pencil on paper, with hole puncture
Dimensions: sheet: 8 1/2 × 11" (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled
2002
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled
2002
Medium: Pencil on paper
Dimensions: sheet: 8 × 9 1/2" (20.3 × 24.1 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Not in MoMA's Collection
I Pick on Everyone Dead or Alive
1999
Not in MoMA's Collection
I Pick on Everyone Dead or Alive
1999
Medium: Lead and steel
Dimensions: overall: 8 1/4 × 12 1/4 × 1/2" (21 × 31.1 × 1.3 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY