id:			160793
accession number:	1999.118
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.118
updated:		2023-03-15 15:46:34.530000

Ode to My Mother , 1995. Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010), published by Editions du Solstice. 9 prints, etching and drypoint; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund 1999.118 © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Ode to My Mother 
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creation date:			1995
creation date earliest:		1995
creation date latest:		1995
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creditline:			Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Fund
copyright:			© The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America
technique:	9 prints, etching and drypoint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010)  - artist

* Editions du Solstice  - publisher

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	inscription:	numbered 35/45; signed, and dated 1995, in graphite below platemark
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Picturing Motherhood Now
	opening date:   2021-10-16T04:00:00
	<i>Picturing Motherhood Now</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2021-March 13, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Pettibone Fine Art, New York, NY)
	date: ?-1999
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 7, 1999
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Louise Bourgeois uses art to express personal concerns and obsessions. One of the dominant themes of her work is her own youth, which she considers a magical, mysterious, and dramatic time. Many of her deeply symbolic sculptures, drawings, and etchings address her childhood relationship with her parents. In <em>Ode to My Mother</em>, the spider, an insect known for entrapping victims in its web, serves for Bourgeois as a caring mother figure, protecting her offspring from harm. These nine illustrations, which were issued in a portfolio accompanied by poetic text in French and English, capture the committed but delicate love between daughter and mother. Both Bourgeois and her mother, whom she called her best friend, repaired tapestries in the family business. Like spiders, they were weavers. Bourgeois once described her mother as deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and useful as a spider.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Liebert, Emily. “Picturing Motherhood Now.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 16-18.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 18.
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