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THE EMILY FISHER LANDAU COLLECTION: AN ERA DEFINED

Jasper Johns

Light Bulb

Lot Closed

December 15, 06:07 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jasper Johns

b. 1930


Light Bulb

signed in pencil and dated 67 (lower right); inscribed AP 3/4 (lower left)

intaglio on Angoumois paper

plate: 8⅜ by 12⅜ in. (21.2 by 31.3 cm.)

sheet: 15 by 19½ in. (38.2 by by 49.6 cm.)

Executed in 1967; this impression is one of four artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 12, with the blindstamp of the publisher, ULAE.

Lorence Monk Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in December 1989 by the present owner

Richard S. Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns: 1960-1993, A Catalogue Raisonné, Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, 1994, no. 36, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

John I.H. Bauer et al., The Whitney Review 1969/70, New York 1970, p. 6 (another example)

Richard S. Field, Jasper Johns: Prints 1960 - 1970, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia 1970, no. 122, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Esther Sparks and Amei Wallach, Universal Limited Art Editions: a History and Catalogue; the first twenty-five years, Chicago and New York 1989, p. 381, no. 107, illustrated (another example illustrated)


Philadelphia Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: Prints 1960 - 1970, 15 April - 14 June 1970

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