Jasper Johns - Evening & Day Editions New York Wednesday, October 26, 2016 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2016 

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    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

Summer

1985
Etching and aquatint, on T. Edmunds paper, with full margins, with the complete book of Wallace Stevens poems, bound (as issued) in the original buckram-covered hardcover with leather trim.
12 x 9 x 1 1/4 in. (30.5 x 22.9 x 3.2 cm)
Signed in pencil in the lower right margin and numbered 131 of 300 in black ink on the justification, published by Arion Press, San Francisco.

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$2,000 - 3,000 

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2016