The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Jasper Johns

Figure 8

Auction Closed

November 21, 01:38 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious American Collection

Jasper Johns

b. 1930


Figure 8

signed, titled The Figure 8 and dated 1959 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

10 by 8 in.

25.4 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# 77)

Al Ordover, New York (acquired from the above in October 1961)

Locksley Shea Gallery, Minneapolis

Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in November 1975)

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Kay Hillman, New York

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1976 by the present owner

Roberta Berstein, Jasper Johns' Paintings and Sculptures 1954-1974: The Changing Focus of the Eye, Albany, 1985, p. 23 (text)

Roberta Bernstein, ed., Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, Volume 2, Painting, 1954-1970, New York, 2017, no. P66, pp. 132-33, illustrated in color

New York, Poindexter Gallery, To Nell Blaine, November - December 1959