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JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
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lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, 1971, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 21/55 (there were also four artist's proofs), published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York, with their blindstamp

Sheet: 41½ x 29½ in. (1054 x 749 mm.)

Literature
R. Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné, West Islip, New York, 1990, no. 98.
Exhibited
San Francisco, California, Palace of the Legion of Honor; Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Desert Museum, An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, 7 October 2000-21 March 2001, p. 181, no. 67, pl. 67 (illustrated).
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Jasper Johns: 45 Years of Master Prints, 15 October 2005-12 February 2006.
Sonoma, California, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art: Johns, Rauschenberg and the Aesthetic of Indifference, 12 July-19 October 2008.
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“My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing. Preconceptions which are a sort of ‘knowing’ may be placed in doubt or may be affirmed by seeing.” – Jasper Johns

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