Cat. No. 1258
Have a Little Courage
- Date:
- 2009
- Themes
- Abstraction, Nature
- Techniques
- Etching
- Support:
- See individual.
- Dimensions:
- Plate and sheet sizes vary. See individual.
- Signature:
- See individual.
- Publisher
- Osiris
- Printer
- Wingate Studio
- Edition:
- Unique
- Edition Information:
- The compositions in this series use plates that were also issued as separate editions. The titles of the separte editions are listed below and can be seen in the Evolving Composition Diagrams of their respective compositions:
"Opening Up" *****confirm*****
"The Stretch"
"Passages"
"Knots"
"The Unfolding"
"Turning Inwards" - 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.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- The plate dimensions are from impressions in MoMA's Collection. The sheet dimensions were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
- Description:
- Series of 4 compositions: 9 soft ground etchings, with hand additions
- Installation Remarks:
- This series of 4 compositions constitutes a single work of art. All of these compositions are to be exhibited together in the indicated sequence.
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
From the series
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 1 of 4, from the series, Have a Little Courage
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 1 of 4, from the series,<i> Have a Little Courage</i>
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 2 of 4, from the series, Have a Little Courage
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 2 of 4, from the series,<i> Have a Little Courage</i>
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 3 of 4, from the series, Have a Little Courage
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 3 of 4, from the series,<i> Have a Little Courage</i>
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 4 of 4, from the series, Have a Little Courage
2009
Not in MoMA's Collection
Untitled, no. 4 of 4, from the series,<i> Have a Little Courage</i>
2009
Publication Excerpts
Louise Bourgeois,
Have a Little Courage,
New York, Osiris, 2009Bourgeois's entire text for this series appears on the panels cited below.
No. 1:
Dizzy
Spells
étourdi
No. 2:
Beheaded
jilted
unprotected
slipped
and
could not get up.
No. 3:
when fear
becomes conscious
No. 4:
Watch out
and
have a little
Courage