Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

Cat. No. 667/A

Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

State/Variant:
Component A: only state
Date:
1999
Themes
Abstraction, Spirals
Techniques
Relief
Support:
Smooth, wove Arches paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 12 × 17" (30.5 × 43.2 cm)
Signature:
"LB" right lower sheet, pencil.
Publisher
Galerie Lelong , Galerie Lelong
Printer
SOLO Impression
Edition:
See diptych in Evolving Composition Diagram below.
Edition Information:
There is an additional known impression of this composition, outside the edition, in MoMA's Collection (Accession Number: 1421.2008). It is not illustrated here due to its similarity to the impression seen here.
Impression:
"AP 2" left lower sheet, pencil, unknown hand.
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.
Curatorial Remarks:
A tote bag merchandise item was made from this composition. The whole series was reproduced on a set of note cards as a merchandise item.
Description:
Letterpress
Installation Remarks:
Each diptych in this series constitutes a single composition and must be exhibited in a vertical configuration as illustrated, or alternatively, with the text on top of the image. The diptychs in the series may be exhibited together or separately, and there is no required sequence.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
135.2000.10a
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

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?
Component A
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Component B
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?
Diptych
Art Is a Guaranty of Sanity, no. 9 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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Publication Excerpts

Louise Bourgeois,

What Is the Shape of This Problem?,

New York: Galerie Lelong, 1999

No. 9 of 9
Art is a guaranty of sanity