Cat. No. 918
When Did This Happen?
- Date:
- 2007
- Themes
- Abstraction, Body Parts, Figures
- Techniques
- Etching
- Support:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- See individual.
- Signature:
- See individual.
- Publisher
- Osiris
- Printer
- Wingate Studio
- Edition:
- Unique
- Edition Information:
- Each panel includes extensive hand additions, and some plates were only partially inked.
The 5 compositions included in this series were each issued as the individual editions listed here, and seen below in Related Works in the Catalogue.
See Related Works in the Catalogue:
"Just Like Me"
"Incognito"
"Knots"
"Abandoned"
"Are You in Orbit? (#1)" and "Are You in Orbit? (#2)" - Impression:
- Not numbered
- Background:
- Benjamin Shiff, the director of the Osiris imprint, collaborated with Bourgeois in a highly experimental phase of printmaking that occupied the last years of her life, from 2005 to 2010. He first established a working relationship with the artist in the 1990s, but the late period is particularly noteworthy for the innovative and complex large-scale projects that evolved at that time. Shiff made use of professional workshops for printing, but he oversaw the creation of the printing plates as Bourgeois worked on them in her home studio. He also provided assistance as she added extensive hand additions and texts, and as she combined individual compositions into multi-panel works and illustrated books.
- Description:
- Series of 5 compositions: 7 soft ground etchings, with hand additions
- Installation Remarks:
- This series of 5 panels constitutes a single work of art. All of these compositions are to be exhibited together in the indicated sequence.
From the series
Untitled, no. 1 of 5, from the series, When Did This Happen?
2007
Untitled, no. 1 of 5, from the series, <i>When Did This Happen?</i>
2007
Untitled, no. 2 of 5, from the series, When Did This Happen?
2007
Untitled, no. 2 of 5, from the series, <i>When Did This Happen?</i>
2007
Untitled, no. 3 of 5, from the series, When Did This Happen?
2007
Untitled, no. 3 of 5, from the series, <i>When Did This Happen?</i>
2007
Untitled, no. 4 of 5, from the series, When Did This Happen?
2007
Untitled, no. 4 of 5, from the series, <i>When Did This Happen?</i>
2007
Untitled, no. 5 of 5, from the series, When Did This Happen?
2007
Untitled, no. 5 of 5, from the series, <i>When Did This Happen?</i>
2007
Related Works in the Catalogue
Incognito
Only state
2007
<i>Incognito</i>
2007
Abandoned
Only state
2007
<i>Abandoned</i>
2007
Just Like Me
Only state
2007
<i>Just Like Me</i>
2007
Knots
Only state
2006
<i>Knots</i>
2006
Are You in Orbit? (#1)
Version 1 of 3, only state
2008
<i>Are You in Orbit? (#1)</i>
2008
Are You in Orbit? (#2)
Version 2 of 3, only state
2008
<i>Are You in Orbit? (#2)</i>
2008
Louise Bourgeois,
When Did This Happen?,
New York, Osiris, 2007Bourgeois's entire text for this series appears on the panels cited below.
No. 1:
Struck by utter
Revulsion
(I do nothing)
paralyzed.
immobilized by the horror
No. 2:
thunder struck
Freeze on the spot
go totally vague
No. 3:
when did this happen?
when I saw them coupling
separate the two snails
my memory is moth eaten
full of holes
No. 4:
something atrocious must have
happened that I don't
understand
and makes me masochistic
No. 5:
when terror pounces
grips me
I create an image