Lot 311
  • 311

Jasper Johns

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Jasper Johns
  • The Dutch Wives (ULAE 187)
  • Screenprint in colors
  • image: 1020 by 1273 mm 40 1/8 by 50 1/8 in
  • sheet: 1093 by 1420 mm 43 by 55 7/8 in
Screenprint in colors, 1977, signed in pencil, dated and numbered 58/70 (total edition includes 19 artist's proofs), on Kurotani Kozo paper watermarked with title, artist's name and date, co-published by the artist and Simca Print Artists, Inc., New York, with their blindstamp, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet with strong colors. A faint 30 mm diagonal handling crease at the lower right sheet edge of the sheet. A few inconspicuous soft indentations in the margins, associated with hinging on the verso. (The top right corner with an inconspicuous printer's crease. Two pin-holes at the top left corner.) The verso in good condition, with a few traces of surface soiling and skinning at all four corners, associated with prior hinging.
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