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THE EMILY FISHER LANDAU COLLECTION: AN ERA DEFINED

Jasper Johns

Ventriloquist

Lot Closed

December 15, 07:15 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jasper Johns

b. 1930


Ventriloquist

signed in pencil and dated '85 (lower right); inscribed For Emily (lower center); numbered 4/67 (lower left)

lithograph printed in colors on J. Green paper

image: 33 by 22⅛ in. (83.9 by 56.2 cm.)

sheet: 41½ by 28 in. (1055 by 71.2 cm.)

Executed in 1985; this impression is number 4 from the edition of 67 plus ten artist's proofs, with the blindstamp of the publisher, ULAE.

Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip

Acquired from the above in June 1985 by the present owner

Saint Paul, Fondation Maeght, Jasper Johns: L'Ouvre Graphique du 1969 à 1985, 17 May - 30 June, 1986

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Madrid, Centro Reina Sofia; Vienna, Weiner Secession; Fort Worth Art Museum; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective, May 1986 - December 1987, 20 May 1986 - 6 December 1987

Richard S. Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns: 1960-1993, A Catalogue Raisonné, Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, 1994, no. 233 illustrated (another example illustrated)

Judith Goldman, Jasper Johns: L'Ouvre Graphique du 1969 à 1985, Saint-Paul 1986, p. 38, no. 95, p. 52 illustrated (another example illustrated)

Tom Armstrong et al., The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1986, vol. 7, p. 43 (another example)

Riva Castleman, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1986, pp. 22, 45, 47, 132, illustrated in color, p. 143 (another example illustrated)

Riva Castleman, Retrospektive der Druckgraphik, Frankfurt 1986, p. 130 illustrated in color, p. 137 (another example illustrated)

Riva Castleman, Obra Grafica 1960 - 1985, Madrid 1987, p. 122 illustrated in color, p. 135 (another example illustrated)

Leo Castelli, Leo Castelli's Artist, Toyko 1990, no. 9, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)