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Louise Bourgeois. The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999
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Cat. No. 659/A/I

The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem?

State/Variant:
Component A: state I of II
Date:
1999
Themes:
Abstraction
Techniques:
Relief
Description:
Letterpress, with pencil and white correction fluid additions
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
composition (partial): 12 1/8 x 16 15/16" (30.8 x 43 cm); sheet: 12 1/8 x 16 15/16" (30.8 x 43 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Inscription:
"proof like" right lower composition, pencil, unknown hand. Verso: "The Telephone Call / from / The Slammer" lower left sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
Printer:
SOLO Impression, New York
Edition:
1 known impression of state I
Impression:
Not numbered
Edition Information:
Proof before the editioning of state II.
State Changes and Additions:
Matrices, component A:
Plate 1: horizontal ringlets; letterpress, printed in light red.
Plate 2: horizontal ringlets; lithography, printed in dark red.
Plate 3: rectangle; lithography, printed in blue.
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.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
1410.2008
This Work in Other Collections:
Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Modern, London

The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This...
1999

Source
1998

NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Louise Bourgeois. Untitled. 1998
NOT IN MoMA'S COLLECTION Untitled
Ink on paper
1998

Component A

Louise Bourgeois. The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999
Component A: state I of II
1999
Published Louise Bourgeois. The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component A, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999
Component A: state II of II
1999

Component B

Published Louise Bourgeois. The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, component B, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999
Component B: only state
1999

Diptych

Published Louise Bourgeois. The Telephone Call from the Slammer, no. 1 of 9, from the series, What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999
Component A: state II of II; component B: only state
1999

Series
1999

Louise Bourgeois. What Is the Shape of This Problem? 1999
What Is the Shape of This Problem?
1999
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