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Louise BourgeoisDismemberment -- Print, Portrait, Woman, Nude, Feminist Art by Louise Bourgeois1994
1994
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Dismemberment, 1994
Louise Bourgeois
Drypoint and roulette, on smooth Somerset wove paper
Signed and numbered from the edition of 44
Fourth and final state
Printed by Harlan & Weaver, New York
Published by Peter Blum Edition, New York
Plate: 17.6 × 12.6 cm (6.9 × 4.9 in)
Sheet: 52 × 37.7 cm (20.5 × 14.8 in)
Literature: MoMA Cat. No. 652/IV
"This is a self-portrait as a helpless, defenceless woman. She has no arms... she is like the harmless women in sculpture. The protecting hand has been cut off. Maybe women are just poor creatures... there is always the fear of being inadequate... of not being able to take care of oneself. It is a permanent feeling. There is the need to defend oneself... then she would be afraid for the children. I always felt that I could not defend myself because I could not understand what motivates people... I still feel that way."
In reference to the game of marbles (being played by the hand at bottom right, most easily seen in state IV), Bourgeois said: "There is always someone to trick her... someone always wins. This is the desperate art of self-defense.... But even if someone cut her, she would not lose her dignity... she would still stand there in full self-assurance. She tries to put herself back together through her beauty... through her hair. You can land on your feet if you are beautiful... see the breasts, hair, high heels. If you can please men and not be guilty about it... you have it made... that's it."
About state III Bourgeois pointed out: "Another little child is there, and another is coming down from above. She can put herself together and take care of her children. She has full control over that little universe."
About the act of cutting, Bourgeois said: "If you cut—either a pattern for a dress or by using a saw—you must be in complete control... it is a need to be self-sufficient. I am interested in the cutting and fitting of clothes, but this need could not be met by cutting clothes. The studio is full of saws... to use them, you must be in total control." She added: "Cutting can also be to punish yourself. I feel people always cut me to size." (Quotes cited in Wye, Deborah and Carol Smith. "The Prints of Louise Bourgeois." New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, p. 184.)
Provenance
Peter Blum New York, 1995
- Creator:Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010, American, French)
- Creation Year:1994
- Dimensions:Height: 20.48 in (52 cm)Width: 14.85 in (37.7 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU80918049992
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes throughout her long career, including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood, which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
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