The Insomnia Drawings documents a significant body of work produced by Louise Bourgeois between November 1994 and June 1995 during periods of insomnia.

Over the course of many sleepless nights, Bourgeois created approximately 220 drawings that combine handwritten reflections, symbolic imagery, autobiographical references, and recurring psychological motifs.

The publication is issued in two hardcover volumes housed in a slipcase. Volume I reproduces the drawings in close facsimile, presenting both recto and verso pages to preserve their material and narrative continuity. Volume II contains scholarly essays by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Elisabeth Bronfen, a chronology, transcriptions of Bourgeois’s bilingual texts, and contextual documentation.

The drawings function as an intimate visual diary and provide insight into Bourgeois’s sustained engagement with memory, trauma, sexuality, anxiety, and self-analysis. The volume occupies an important position within the documentation of her late work and contributes to the broader understanding of drawing as a psychological and narrative medium within contemporary art practice.