Cat. No. 667/B, variant 2
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
- State/Variant:
- Component B: only state, variant
- Date:
- 1999
- Themes
- Words
- Techniques
- Relief
- Support:
- Smooth, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- composition: 9 5/8 x 7 7/8" (24.5 x 20 cm); sheet: 12 x 17 1/16" (30.5 x 43.3 cm)
- Signature:
- Not signed
- Publisher
- unpublished
- Printer
- SOLO Impression
- Edition:
- 2 known variant impressions 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
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 1420.2008
- This Work in Other Collections:
- Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Modern, London
Component B: only state, variant
1999
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity , no. 9 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
1999
Source
2000
Les Concentriques et Les Spirales?
2000
Les Concentriques et Les Spirales?
2000
Medium: Ink on paper
Dimensions: sheet: 9 × 11 1/2" (22.9 × 29.2 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
Component A: only state
1999
<i>Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity</i>, no. 9 of 9, component A, from the series, <i>What Is the Shape of This Problem?</i>
1999
Component B: only state, variant
1999
<i>Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity</i>, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, <i>What Is the Shape of This Problem?</i>
1999
Component B: only state, variant
1999
<i>Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity</i>, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, <i>What Is the Shape of This Problem?</i>
1999
Component B: only state
1999
<i>Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity</i>, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, <i>What Is the Shape of This Problem?</i>
1999
Components A and B: only state
1999
<i>Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity</i>, no. 9 of 9, from the series, <i>What Is the Shape of This Problem?</i>
1999
Series
1999
What Is the Shape of This Problem?
1999
<i>What Is the Shape of This Problem?</i>
1999
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