Lot 128
  • 128

Jasper Johns

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Jasper Johns
  • A collection of exhibition posters
  • five with a complimentary signature in black ink
  • six colour offset lithographs on wove papers
  • largest: 105 by 75cm.; 41 1/4 by 29 1/2 in.
  • smallest: 87 by 57cm.; 34 1/4 by 22 1/2 in.
  • Executed between 1980-1991.
i) The 50th anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980, 115 by 75cm.
ii) The Walker Art Centre, 87 by 57cm.
iii) Drawings at Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991, 99 by 66cm.
iv) The Museum of Modern Art, 1989, 74 by 96cm.
v) The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988 -1989, 97 by 58cm.
vi) Paintings and drawings at Leo Castelli, 1990 - 1991, 98 by 65cm.

Condition

Each appears in good condition, *(not examined out of frames), five framed. Visible imperfections to individual sheets are: 'Walker Art Center' - a few handling marks at left and lower sheet edges. 'Whitney Museum of American Art' - a couple short creases and a handful of fox marks in the left and right margins. 'The Drawings of Jasper Johns Whitney Museum of American Art' (unsigned) - A tear at the left edge, creasing, some scattered fox marks, unframed.
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