Cat. No. 149.1
Pink Days
- State/Variant:
- Version 1 of 2, only state
- Date:
- 2008
- Themes
- Music, Words
- Techniques
- Screenprint
- Support:
- Smooth, wove card stock paper
- Dimensions:
- composition: 6 3/4 x 10 1/16" (17.1 x 25.5 cm); sheet: 8 9/16 x 11" (21.7 x 28 cm)
- Signature:
- "LB" lower right margin, pencil.
- Publisher
- Louise Bourgeois
- Printer
- Dyenamix
- Edition:
- 175; plus 8 A.P.
- Impression:
- "158/175" lower left margin, pencil, unknown hand.
- Background:
- Bourgeois created prints as holiday gifts for a circle of friends. "Pink Days" was made in two versions, one a small screenprint on paper, and the other, a larger digital print on fabric, with both used as holiday gifts in 2008. The larger fabric version was made for Bourgeois's VIP list.
- Curatorial Remarks:
- Bourgeois's use of music paper as a support for drawings goes back to the early 1940s. Here, Dyenamix used screenprint to create the music paper background, and the G-clef.
- Description:
- Screenprint
- Other Remarks:
- According to Bourgeois's assistant, Jerry Gorovoy, "pink days" meant good days and happiness for the artist, and "blue days" meant bad days and depression.
- MoMA Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- MoMA Accession Number:
- 404.2010
- This Work in Other Collections:
- Brooklyn Museum, NY
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
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Related Works in Other Mediums
Not in MoMA's Collection
Pink Days and Blue Days
1997
Not in MoMA's Collection
Pink Days and Blue Days
1997
Medium: Steel, fabric, bone, wood, glass, rubber, and mixed media
Dimensions: overall: 117 x 87 x 87" (297.2 x 221 x 221 cm)
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY