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JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

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$ 15 000 000
Auction dateClassic
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -04:00
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ID 838991
Lot 49 | JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

Numbers

signed and misdated 'J. Johns 1963-78' (on the reverse)

aluminum

57 3/8 x 43 5/8 in. (145.7 x 110.8 cm.)

Conceived in 1963 and cast in 1968





Provenance

Acquired from the artist by the late owner, 2001.



Literature

R. Bernstein, Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture; Sculpture, New York and New Haven, 2016, vol. 4, p. 84, no. S42 (illustrated in color, p. 85).

R. Bernstein, Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, 1954-1970, New York and New Haven, 2017, vol. 5, no. S42 (illustrated in color, p. 213).



Exhibited

Vancouver Art Gallery; Regina, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery and Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain, New York 13, January-July 1969 (titled Aluminum Numbers and dated 1969). Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Grids, January-March 1972 (dated 1963-1969).

Akron Art Institute, Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art, March-May 1979 (illustrated; dated 1963-1978).

Atlanta, Heath Gallery, Out of the South: An Exhibition of Work by Artists Born in the South, October 1982, p. 17, no. 3 (illustrated; dated 1963-1978).

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; South Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Houston, Menil Collection, Pop Art, 1955-1970, February-August 1985, p. 47 (illustrated in color; dated 1963-1978).

Houston, Menil Collection and Leeds City Art Gallery, Jasper Johns: The Sculptures, February-June 1996, p. 103 (illustrated in color, p. 96; dated 1963-1978).

Philadelphia, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pop Abstraction, February-April 1998 (dated 1963/1978).

Seattle, Experience Music Project, DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006-January 2007, pp. 26-27 (illustrated in color; dated 1963-1978).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, September 2021-February 2022, p. 85, no. 38 (illustrated in color).



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