id: 155940 accession number: 1991.229 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.229 updated: 2020-11-04 21:33:49.682000 Untitled or The Burning Pin, 1990. Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911-2010). Drypoint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1991.229 © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Untitled or The Burning Pin title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1990 creation date earliest: 1990 creation date latest: 1990 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: drypoint department: Prints collection: PR - Drypoint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Wye 96 --- CREATORS * Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911-2010) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: III/III edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors opening date: 1995-11-22T05:00:00 Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Louise Bourgeois was an artist of remarkable power and mystery. She believed that making art is the process of giving tangible form to, and thus exorcising, the gripping, subconscious states of being that fill one with anxiety. Her unique vision has resulted in an extremely personal body of work of emotional intensity that defies easy definition. Bourgeois comments on spirals: "This is a way of going on . . . it is like a thread of thought . . . or a dance . . . you go here, you go there . . . you keep reaching out to others. It is wishful. You can not hurt me . . . you can not stop me . . . you can not break my thread of thought. I made it into a pattern . . . it is a kind of grid . . . there is order. Then there is the safety pin. I like the idea of the safety pin . . . it is dangerous, but it also holds up my whole attire. Safety pins can keep things together . . . they can prevent catastrophe." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES