(Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) (ULAE 238-241)
26 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches each(Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) (ULAE 238-241)
1987
set of four etchings with aquatint in colors on Somerset paper
paper: 26 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches each
image: 19 x 12 3/4 inches each
frame: 28 x 21 inches each
edition: 73 with 16; 14; 14; 13 AP's respectively and 4 PP's
each signed & dated in pencil "J Johns '87" lower right
each numbered in pencil lower right
printed by John Lund, Hitoshi Kido, Craig Zammiello, Keith Brintzenhofe
published by Universal Limited Art Editions, 1987, with their blindstamp
© 2024 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
with exhibition labels from:
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
Galería Weber, Alexander y Cobo, Madrid
Fundación Luis Cernuda, Seville; Casa de la Parra, Xunta, Santiago de Compostela
Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Literature
Richard Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonne, ULAE, New York, 1994, Catalogue Reference ULAE 238-241, n.p.,another image of each reproduced in full-page color
Roberta Bernstein, Jasper Johns: The Seasons, 1991, Brooke Alexander Editions, no. 13-16, pgs. 20-23, another impression of each reproduced in full-page color.
Elizabeth Armstrong, Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, Walker Art Center, 1990, pgs. 78-82, another impression of each reproduced in full-page color.
Michel Butor, Kathleen Slavin, Jasper Johns Gravures Dessins 1960-1991, Foundation Vincent Van Gogh, 1992, no. 72-75, pgs. 124-125, another impression of each reproduced in full-page color.
Joan Rothfuss, Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, 2003, Catalogue Reference 14-17, pgs. 62-64, another impression of each reproduced in full-page color.
Iwona Blazwick, Jasper Johns: Shadow and Substance, Whitechapel Gallery, 2013, pgs. 18-21, another impression of each reproduced in full-page color.
Carlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021, another impression reproduced plates 15, 21, 35, pgs. 291, 292, 295.
Exhibited
Jasper Johns: The Seasons, Prints and Related Works, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, Nov. 9, 1991-Jan. 4, 1992; San Diego Museum of Art, June 27-Aug. 9, 1992; Galería Weber, Alexander y Cobo, Madrid, Sept. 17-Nov. 14, 1992; Fundación Luis Cernuda, Seville; Casa de la Parra, Xunta, Santiago de Compostela; Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, these impressions exhibited.
Jasper Johns The Seasons, November 6, 1998 - January 3, 1999, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, these impressions exhibited.
Jasper Johns Variations on a Theme, June 2, 2012 - September 9, 2012, The Phillips Collection, other impressions exhibited.
Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, September 29, 2001-February 13, 2022, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, other impressions exhibited.
Museum Collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Tate Modern, London
The National Gallery, Washington, DC
Powers Art Center, Aspen
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Fisher Landau Center, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Jasper Johns’ iconic four image series, The Seasons, is a standout example of the artist’s inspired printmaking, layers upon layers of marks and symbolism are most evident in John's iconic four image series, The Seasons, 1987.
SEASONS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTION
Jasper Johns Seasons is an autobiographical reflection of the Artist’s Life. Jasper Johns "assembled artifacts and seasonal symbols to narrate the stages of life and the periods of his career. Johns's "self-portrait" shadow, which recurs in all four of the paintings, was inspired by Picasso's painting The Shadow (1953). "
Jasper Johns’ iconic four image series, The Seasons, is a standout example of the artist’s inspired printmaking, layers upon layers of marks and symbolism are most evident in John's iconic four image series, The Seasons, 1987. Based on deeply personal paintings by the same name, this set of etching and aquatints is intermixed with the artist’s personal artifacts and fragmented imagery from earlier works, while depicting the different studios where each painting was created: Stony Point, New York (Spring), St. Martin in the French West Indies (Summer), Houston Street, New York City (Fall), and East 63rd Street, New York City (Winter).
Curiosity about what image is impels Johns's heuristic approach to printmaking. It is the place in his work where the literalism of three dimensions most conspicuously gives way to the illusionism of two. If a painted flag, coterminous to its support, can be both that very thing and its picture, one printed on a page, surrounded by a margin, can only be an image of a flag or an image of a painting of one but never the thing itself. It makes sense, then, that Johns's prints, like his drawings, contained perspectival and volumetric illusionism some three decades before his paintings: they are all involved in the work of representation, if not exactly reproduction. Indeed, Johns's prints comprise an auto-anthology of familiar motifs, iconic paintings and sculptures, and details of them, all metamorphosed by their transposition from one medium into another. Surveyed chronologically,..., they present entwined timelines of Johns's motifs, means, and ideas. Yet the effect is by no means linear, given how images recur and recombine, far more promiscuously in his prints than in his paintings.
Specifically, the Jasper Johns Seasons includes key symbols and icons created by the Artist such as the American Flag, the Mona Lisa, George Ohr Pottery, as well as the Artist's homage to Pablo Picasso.
Jasper Johns, arguably the most important living Post War and Contemporary Artist, established an Auction record November 2014, when the Artist's Flag, fetched $36 million at Sotheby's, establishing an all time Auction world record for the Artist. A new Post-War and Contemporary Print record was also set when Jasper Johns Savarin Monotype (ULAE S36) fetched $1.3 million, from the Estate of Michael Crichton.
The Jasper Johns Seasons Set of Four etchings with aquatint that Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd. is offering for sale is museum quality and museum exhibed. The set is exceptionally fresh and bright, in overall excellent condition. The Jasper Johns Seasons Set of Four etchings with aquatint are each floated in four archival maple wood frames with Optium acrylic created by Bark Frameworks, New York. Each Jasper Johns Seasons - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, was created to stand alone, but is clearly more desirable as a complete Set of Four as originally intended by Jasper Johns.
#JasperJohns The Seasons (ULAE 238-241) 1987, set of four color aquatints achieved $163,800 from online Colorado bidder @phillipsauction, exceeding high pre-sale estimate, April 19, 2022.https://t.co/KujVB2iBRo pic.twitter.com/weYz99DTif
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