Untitled (ULAE 309)
21 x 16 inchesUntitled (ULAE 309)
2012
color intaglio (spitbite, aquatint) on Magnan Pescia soft white paper
paper: 21 x 16 inches
image: 11 3/4 x 8 inches
frame: 22 x 17 inches
edition: 30 with 8 AP's
signed & dated in pencil "Jasper Johns '12" lower right
numbered lower left in pencil
printed by Doug Bennett and John Lund
published by LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York
© 2024 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Literature
Carlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021, another impression reproduced plate 47, pg. 298.
To be included in the forthcoming update to: The Prints of Jasper Johns: A Catalogue Raisonne, ULAE, New York, Catalogue Reference ULAE 309
Museum Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Exhibted
Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art/Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jasper Johns & John Lund: Masters in the Print Studio, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, March 23 – June 15, 2014
New Prints 2013/ Winter, International Print Center New York, January 18 - March 9, 2013
Additional Photos
The imagery in the Postcard series relates to several of Johns’s earlier series and includes circular motifs that date back to the artist’s Device Circle of the 1950s, figures of a man and a boy from the artist’s, Seasons, from the mid-1980s, and a vase in profile, which first appeared in his work in the early 1970s.
POSTCARDS RETROSPECTIVE SERIES
Johns Postcards were orginally exhbited at Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles November 2, 2012–January 5, 2013. The oil and encaustic canvases and the related watercolor and crayon monotypes are brightly colored in contrast to the bronzes with their dark patinas.
The imagery in this series of works relates to several of Johns’s earlier series and includes circular motifs that date back to the artist’s Device Circle of the 1950s, figures of a man and a boy from Seasons, created in the mid-1980s, and a vase in profile, which first appeared in his work in the early 1970s and also appaera in Untitled (Flag and Vase).
Jasper Johns Untitled, 2012 was included in Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Videos
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