The Leslie & Johanna Garfield Collection: A Celebration of Prints Evening Sale

Jasper Johns

Flag on Orange

Auction Closed

October 18, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jasper Johns

b.1930

Flag on Orange

Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1998, signed in pencil, dated and numbered 23/27 (total edition includes six artist's proofs), on Hahnemuhle Copperplate wove paper, published by the artist, and with his blindstamp, framed

plate: 454 by 300 mm 17⅞ by 11¾ in

sheet: 683 by 505 mm 26⅞ by 19⅞ in

Madison, Chazen Museum of Art, The Leslie and Johanna Garfield Collection: Works on Paper, October 2011 - January 2012, illustrated

“… the flag seems special. He returns to it again and again as a musician returns to a favourite theme or set of chords, a poet to a particular metre, or as Rembrandt did to his own ageing physiognomy.” – Anne Seymour (Anne Seymour, Exh. Cat., London, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, Jasper Johns Flags 1955 - 1994, 1996, pp. 5-6)