Jasper
Johns
0-9, A Set of 10 Numerals (ULAE 156-165)
Set of ten etchings on Barcham Green paper
8 3/8 x 6 inches each
Edition of 100
Each Numbered by the Artist in Pencil and Signed "J. Johns 75" Lower Right.
Each with the Jasper Johns Watermark Signature.
Printed By: Atelier Crommelynck
Publisher: Petersburg Press, 1975
Literature
Richard Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonne, ULAE, New York, 1994, Catalogue Reference ULAE 156-165, n.p. Each Jasper Johns 0-9 etching is reproduced in the Richard Field Catalogue Raisonne: The Prints of Jasper Johns 1960-1993.
Museum Collections
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 1988 (1988.263.1)
Jasper Johns 0-9 Set of 10 (ULAE 156-165), 1975
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Gift of the 2006 Collectors Committee (M.2006.66.1-.10)
Jasper Johns 0-9 Set, 1968
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Gift of the Bartos Foundation (794.1963.5)
Jasper Johns 0-9 Set, 1963.
The complete Set of Ten Numerals, each signed, dated and numbered etchings, 1975, on Barcham Green Paper, published by Petersburg Press, New York, each with the "Jasper Johns Watermark Signature", each with full margins. Each 8 3/8 x 6 inches each.
The Jasper Johns 0-9 Set of Ten Numeral etchings is exceptionally fresh and bright and in overall excellent condition. Each of the Ten Jasper Johns Numeral etchings, from '0' through '9', is printed on an individual sheet of Barcham Green Paper to stand alone.
However, the full impact of the "0" through "9" progression of Numerals is best when the Set of Ten Numerals Etchings is displayed either in two rows of five figures - "0 through 4" and "5 through 9", or a single row of ten etchings, beginning with '0" and ending with '9'.
Jasper Johns 0-9 Numerals Set is an iconic example of the Artist's transformation of a rather mundane subject into something visually complex and engaging, a theme central to Jasper Johns creative process.
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