The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

Cat. No. 659/A/I

The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

State/Variant:
Component A: state I of II
Date:
1999
Themes
Abstraction
Techniques
Relief
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
composition (partial): 12 1/8 x 16 15/16" (30.8 x 43 cm); sheet: 12 1/8 x 16 15/16" (30.8 x 43 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Printer
SOLO Impression
Edition:
1 known impression of state I
Edition Information:
Proof before the editioning of state II.
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, with pencil and white correction fluid additions
Inscription:
"proof like" right lower composition, pencil, unknown hand. Verso: "The Telephone Call / from / The Slammer" lower left sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
State Changes and Additions:
Matrices, component A:
Plate 1: horizontal ringlets; letterpress, printed in light red.
Plate 2: horizontal ringlets; lithography, printed in dark red.
Plate 3: rectangle; lithography, printed in blue.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
1410.2008
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

The Telephone Call from the Slammer , no. 1 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This ...

1999

Source

1998

Untitled
Component A
The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Component B
The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Diptych
The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 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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