LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010)
The Small Hours, no. 2 of 9, from What Is the Shape of This Problem?
two letterpress prints, on Arches paper, 1999, one sheet initialed and numbered 'AP 17' in pencil (one of seventeen artist's proofs, the edition was 25), printed at SOLO Impression, New York, with their blindstamp, published by Galerie Lelong, New York and Paris, each the full sheet, together with the title page, in generally very good condition
Each Sheet: 12 x 17 in. (305 x 432 mm.)

Wye 658, 660

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Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression notes there were eleven artist's proof sets of the full portfolio, What is the Shape of this Problem?, numbered 1 through 11, and six additional artist's proofs of each individual sheet numbered 12 through 17.

"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." (Deborah Wye, Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018).