Summer

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JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
Summer
etching and aquatint, on T. Edmunds paper, 1989, signed and dated in pencil, dedicated 'For Brooke & Carolyn / Affection, / Jasper, / Dec. 1989' in pencil, numbered 'HC 15⁄16' (an hors-commerce impression, there was no edition), published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York, with their blindstamp, with full margins, in very good condition, framed
Image: 19 1⁄8 x 12 ½ in. (486 x 318 mm.)
Sheet: 22 5⁄8 x 15 ¼ in. (575 x 387 mm.)

Provenance

The artist.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

Universal Limited Art Editions S62

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Lot Essay

"The initial idea for Summer evolved from a work directly tied to specific circumstances of the artist's life, to a series dealing simultaneously with the broader theme of the human condition. The specific images on this fictional canvas - the Mona Lisa, Two Flags, the George Ohr pottery, and the demon from Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (disguised in the background of puzzle-shaped stripes) are taken from painting that immediately precede The Seasons: Racing Thoughts and Ventriloquist. These works for the early 1980s were among the first to reveal more illusionistic and openly self-revealing imagery characteristic of Johns's art of the last decade.

Publication excerpt from Jasper John's The Seasons: Records of Time by Roberta Bernstein, in Jasper Johns: The Seasons, pp. 10-11.

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