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Louise Bourgeois
What is the Shape of This Problem (MoMA 658-667)
- Estimate
- $30,000 - 40,000
$85,680
Lot Details
The set of nine letterpress and lithography diptychs, on Arches paper, the full sheets, lacking the title page.
1999
all S. 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm)
All signed with initials and numbered 6/25 in pencil (there were also 14 artist's proofs), published by Galerie Lelong, New York and Paris, all framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
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.
Literature
Louise Bourgeois
French-American | B. 1911 D. 2010Known for her idiosyncratic style, Louise Bourgeois was a pioneering and iconic figure of twentieth and early twenty-first century art. Untied to an art historical movement, Bourgeois was a singular voice, both commanding and quiet.Bourgeois was a prolific printmaker, draftsman, sculptor and painter. She employed diverse materials including metal, fabric, wood, plaster, paper and paint in a range of scale — both monumental and intimate. She used recurring themes and subjects (animals, insects, architecture, the figure, text and abstraction) as form and metaphor to explore the fragility of relationships and the human body. Her artworks are meditations of emotional states: loneliness, jealousy, pride, anger, fear, love and longing.
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