Untitled (Study for Dancing Insect)

Cat. No. 408, study

Untitled (Study for Dancing Insect)

State/Variant:
Study
Date:
2003
Themes
Animals & Insects, Motherhood & Family
Techniques
Other Techniques
Support:
Smooth paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 13 1/8 x 11" (33.3 x 27.9 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Edition:
1 known photocopy study
Impression:
Not numbered
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 of Erasmus Books and Prints, the shop she opened for a brief period in the late 1950s.
Curatorial Remarks:
Without being able to examine it in person, it appears that the study is a color photocopy of state III of III, variant. Bourgeois made the photocopy in 2003, several years after she discontinued work on the "Dancing Insect" prints.
Description:
Photocopy
Other Remarks:
According to Bourgeois's assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, the three eggs in the lower left composition refer to Louise's three children and the insect is a self portrait of the artist.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Dancing Insect

1999-2003

States
Dancing Insect
Dancing Insect
Dancing Insect
Dancing Insect
Studies
Untitled (Study for Dancing Insect)

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