The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction
The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction
Property from a Prestigious American Collection
Jasper Johns
Figure 8
Live auction begins on:
November 21, 12:00 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
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