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Cat. No. 149.1

Pink Days

State/Variant:
Version 1 of 2, only state
Date:
2008
Themes:
Music, Words
Techniques:
Screenprint
Description:
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:
The artist
Printer:
Dyenamix, New York
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.
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

Pink Days
2008

First Version

Published Louise Bourgeois. Pink Days. 2008
Version 1 of 2, only state
2008

Second Version

Published Louise Bourgeois. Pink Days. 2008
Version 2 of 2, only state
2008