Cat. No. 1430
You Are Heading For It
- State/Variant:
- Unique variant
- Date:
- 2006
- Themes
- Abstraction
- Techniques
- Etching
- Support:
- Paper (4 attached sheets)
- Dimensions:
- plate (a and d) (each): 55 13/16 × 18 13/16" (141.8 × 47.8 cm); plate (c): 59 7/16 × 19 3/4" (151 × 50.1 cm); sheet (overall): 59 1/2 × 84 1/2" (151.1 × 214.6 cm)
- Signature:
- panel (d): "LB" lower right comp., pencil.
- Publisher
- Osiris
- Printer
- Wingate Studio
- Edition:
- Unique
- 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 color of the hand additions and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person. The plate dimensions are from impressions in MoMA's Collection. The overall sheet dimensions were provided by the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
- Description:
- panel (a): Soft ground etching, with watercolor, gouache, and pencil additions
panel (b): Pencil
panel (c): Soft ground etching, with watercolor, gouache, and pencil additions
panel (d): Soft ground etching, with watercolor, gouache, and pencil additions - Inscription:
- panel (b): "you are heading for / disappointment / followed by / depression" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
- State Changes and Additions:
- Matrices:
This 4-panel composition is made up of 2 plates that were used in other compositions. They are noted below and can be seen in Related Works in the Catalogue.
panel (a) and (d): plate from Untitled (2008)
For these panels, the plate is partially inked.
panel (c): plate from "The Prey of an Anxiety"
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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Untitled
2008
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<i>The Prey of an Anxiety</i>
2007