Jasper Johns - Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection New York Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | Phillips

Editions and Works on Paper Including Works...

New York Auction 18 April 2017

  • Provenance

    Piero Crommelynck Collection, Paris
    (inkstamp on reverse)

  • Literature

    Universal Limited Art Editions 218

  • Artist Biography

    Jasper Johns

    American • 1930

    Jasper Johns is a painter and printmaker who holds a foundational place in twentieth century art history. Quoting the evocative gestural brushstroke of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns represented common objects such as flags, targets, masks, maps and numbers: He sought to explore things "seen and not looked at, not examined" in pictorial form.  Drawing from common commercial and 'readymade' objects, such as newspaper clippings, Ballantine Ale and Savarin Coffee cans, Johns was a bridge to Pop, Dada and Conceptual art movements.

    Beyond the historical significance, each work by Johns is individually considered in sensuous form. A curiosity of medium led him to employ a range of materials from encaustic and commercial house paint to lithography, intaglio and lead relief.

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Jasper Johns

Periscope

1981
Etching and aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 34 x 24 1/4 in. (86.4 x 61.5 cm)
S. 41 3/8 x 29 1/2 in. (105 x 75 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated 'B.A.T' in pencil (the good-to-print proof impression, before the edition of 88 and 12 artist's proofs), printed by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris and published by Petersburg Press, London, framed.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $43,750

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

New York Auction 18 April 2017