Untitled
9 7/8 x 10 2/8 inchesUntitled (ULAE 186/S13), 1977
published by Brooke Alexander, Inc. as the Jasper Johns/Screenprints catalogue cover
image: 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
paper: 9 13/16 x 10 1/8 inches
full cover unfolded: 9 13/16 x 20 1/4 inches
frame: 15 5/8 x 15 5/8 inches
edition: 3000 unnumbered impressions
unsigned as published
published by Brooke Alexander Inc., 1977
printed by Simca Print Artists, Inc., New York by Takeshi Shimada, Kenjiro Nonaka and Hiroshi Kawanishi
© Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Literature
Richard Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonne, ULAE, New York, 1994, Catalogue Reference ULAE 186/S13, n.p., another impression reproduced.
Richard Field, Jasper Johns Prints 1970-1977, Petersburg Press, Ltd., London, 1978, Catalogue Reference Field 260, pg. 123, another impression reproduced.
Exhibitions
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, Jasper Johns Screenprints, November 15, 1977-January 17, 1978, another impression exhibited.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesRolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage, September 12, 1993 – November 28, 1993, another impression exhibited.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage, January 14 - April 3, 1994, another impression exhibited.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage, April 23–August 7, 1994, another impression exhibited.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage, June 4-July 30, 1995, another impression exhibited.
Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center, Tokyo, Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage, November 3, 1994 - February 26, 1995, another impression exhibited.
Selected Museum Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Australia
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
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Copyright Page/Edition Notice
Jasper Johns, Untitled (ULAE 13), 1977 is a screenprint conceived as the catalog cover for Jasper Johns/Screenprints, a 28-page exhibition catalog published by Brooke Alexander, Inc., NY and printed by Simca Print Artists, NY. Never intended as a standalone print, Jasper Johns, Untitled (ULAE 13), 1977 was published in an unsigned and unnumbered limited edition of 3,000.
JASPER JOHNS/SCREENPRINTS CATALOG
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Jasper Johns, Untitled (ULAE 13), 1977 is a screenprint conceived as the catalog cover for Jasper Johns/Screenprints, a 28-page exhibition catalog published by Brooke Alexander, Inc., NY and printed by Simca Print Artists, NY. Never intended as a standalone print, Jasper Johns, Untitled (ULAE 13), 1977 was published in an unsigned and unnumbered limited edition of 3,000.
Condition
Excellent, full margins; the screenprint colors particularly rich and vibrant; the newsprint collage screening especially crisp and bold. The Patapar parchment paper shows the expected subtle toning associated with nearly five decades of age. The extreme edges slightly discolored, as normal, most visibly adjacent to the catalog staples. The folded dust jacket loose as issued, and the folded portion of the dust jacket intact, not removed or cut down. The complete dust jacket precisely wraps and matches the dimensions of the Jasper Johns/Screenprints exhibition catalog. Floated in an archival Brice Marden–style black wood frame with UV plexiglass.
Over 200 counterfeit sold since 2022.
From 2022 -2025, over 200 counterfeit Jasper Johns screenprints have been sold at numerous online venues, including Forum Auctions, LA Modern, Bonhams, Toomey & Company, Cardena Auctions, Composition Gallery, Chamberlain’s Auction Galleries, Palm Beach Auctions, Rago, Ro Gallery, US Auction Online, Wright, and many others. Listings typically featurie a single photo, minimal details, inaccurate dimensions, and none include the 28-page Jasper Johns/Screenprints catalog. Buyers should assume that any impression without the original Jasper Johns/Screenprints catalog is counterfeit.
Counterfeits include erroneous titles — NOT documented in Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné
Counterfeit Jasper Johns screenprints have been repeatedly sold with erroneous titles: “Cross Hatch, 1977” and/or “Cross Hatch, circa 1977”, titles never used by Jasper Johns and not documented in Richard Field’s Jasper Johns: Catalog Raisonné of Prints. Fraudulent sellers include Chamberlain’s Auction Galleries, Composition Gallery, Dane Fine Art, LA Modern, Palm Beach Auctions, Rago, Ro Gallery, Toomey & Company, Wright Gallery, US Auction Brokers, US Auction Online. These sellers have brazenly re-titled the screenprint with erroneous details; misidentifying the medium as “Transpagra paper” instead of Patapar parchment and detailing implausible sheet dimensions of 10 x 10 inches or 9.5 x 9.5 inches.. Listing from Chamberlain's Auction Galleries, Dane Fine Art, US Auction Brokers and US Auction Online include a false Certificate of Authenticity (COA) issued by “The Great Dane Collection".
Counterfeit Jasper Johns 1977 screenprints are printed on bright white stock, often misrepresented by fraudulent sellers as serigraph on Transpagra paper instead of Patapar parchment. Fraudulent sellers never show the unfolded dust jacket, which measures 9 13/16 x 20 1/4 inches. They also fail to indicate whether the sheet has been trimmed.
Learn More: How to Spot Counterfeit Jasper Johns 1977 Screenprints That Flood Online Art Auctions, The Fine Art Blog, official blog, Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd.
About Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd.
Before establishing Joseph K. Levene Fine Art, Ltd. in 1991, Joseph K. Levene was President/COO, Petersburg Press, Inc., the International publisher of limited editions by David Hockney, James Rosenquist, Howard Hodgkin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Frank Stella and Jasper Johns, including these iconic gems: 0-9 (ULAE 155), 1975, 0-9, Set of 10 Numbers (ULAE 156-165), 1975, Corpse and Mirror (ULAE 167), 1976, Target With Four Faces (ULAE 203), 1979, Target with Plaster Casts (ULAE 208), 1979-80 and many more.
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