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Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse
JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
Gray Target
Details
JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
Gray Target
signed, dated and titled 'GRAY TARGET 1958 J. JOHNS' (on the reverse)
encaustic on canvas
42 x 42 in. (106.7 x 106.7 cm.)
Painted in 1958
Gray Target
signed, dated and titled 'GRAY TARGET 1958 J. JOHNS' (on the reverse)
encaustic on canvas
42 x 42 in. (106.7 x 106.7 cm.)
Painted in 1958
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Ileana and Michael Sonnabend, Paris (acquired from the above, January 1960).
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (on consignment from the above).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 10 February 1998.
Ileana and Michael Sonnabend, Paris (acquired from the above, January 1960).
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (on consignment from the above).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 10 February 1998.
Literature
R. Bernstein, Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, Painting, 1954-1970, New Haven and London, 2016, vol. 2, p. 84, no. P42 (illustrated in color, p. 85).
J. Farago, "How a Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart" in The New York Times, 16 January 2022, digital (illustrated in situ at the artist's studio).
J. Farago, "How a Gray Painting Can Break Your Heart" in The New York Times, 16 January 2022, digital (illustrated in situ at the artist's studio).
Exhibited
Spoleto, Palazzo Collicola, Festival of Two Worlds, Mostra dei realisti simbolici americani e di quindici artisti americani, June 1958.
Paris, Galerie Rive Droite, Jasper Johns, January 1959.
Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Jasper Johns: 287° Mostra del naviglio, March 1959.
New York, Stable Gallery; Carbondale, Fine Arts Festival at Southern Illinois University, Allyn Gallery; Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute; Tallahassee, Florida State University; Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Holiday Art Center; Ithaca, Cornell University, White Art Museum; Ohio, Kent State University; Atlanta Public Library and New York, Aurora, Wells College, School of New York: Some Younger Artists, December 1959-March 1962.
Milan, Galleria dell’Ariete, Quattro americani, June 1964, no. 2 (titled Target).
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Jasper Johns: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 1954-1964, December 1964, no. 12 (illustrated; dated 1957).
Pasadena Art Museum, Jasper Johns, January-February 1965.
Milwaukee Art Center, Pop Art and the American Tradition, April-May 1965, p. 8 (illustrated, no. 38).
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum and Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kompas 3: Schilderkunst na 1945 uit New York, November 1967-February 1968, p. 36 (illustrated, no. 7).
Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, New-Dada e Pop Art Newyorkesi, April-May 1969, p. 36 (illustrated, pl. 12; dated 1957).
Rome, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Contemporanea, November 1973-February 1974, p. 224, no. 1 (illustrated incorrectly; dated 1960).
Baltimore Museum of Art, May 1981-September 1986 (extended loan).
Princeton University, The Art Museum; Akron Art Museum; The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collection: Works from the 1950s and 1960s, February 1985-June 1986, pp. 50 and 110, no. 21 (illustrated, p. 55).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985, November 1986-June 1987, p. 345 (illustrated in color).
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Leo Castelli y sus artistas, June-October 1987, no. 91 (illustrated).
Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain; Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie; Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna; Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere; Geneva, Musée Rath; Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Modern Art; Sendai, Miyagi Museum of Art; Fukuyama Museum of Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Colección Sonnabend, October 1987-February 1991, p. 85 (illustrated in color).
Lyon, Musée Saint-Pierre art contemporain, La couleur seule: l'expérience du monochrome, October-December 1988, no. 28 (illustrated, p. 133; illustrated again in color in situ at the exhibition).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pop Art, September-December 1991, p. 73, no. 121 (illustrated in color, pl. 15).
Turin, Portici del Lingotto, Arte Americana, 1930-1970, January-March 1992, p. 176 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62, December 1992-October 1993, p. 124 (illustrated in color).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, May-September 1994.
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Sammlung Sonnabend: Von der Pop-art bis heute; Amerikanische und europäische Kunst seit 1954, February-September 1996, p. 63 (illustrated in color; titled Grey Target).
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Pintura estadounidense expresionismo abstracto, October 1996-January 1997, p. 392, no. 39 (illustrated in color, p. 393).
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century, May-July 1997, no. 254 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, January-April 2007, p. 67, no. 10 (illustrated in color, pp. 67 and 161).
The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: Gray, November 2007-May 2008, pp. 95, 131, 136 and 157 (illustrated in color, p. 92, no. 41).
Paris, Galerie Rive Droite, Jasper Johns, January 1959.
Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Jasper Johns: 287° Mostra del naviglio, March 1959.
New York, Stable Gallery; Carbondale, Fine Arts Festival at Southern Illinois University, Allyn Gallery; Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute; Tallahassee, Florida State University; Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Holiday Art Center; Ithaca, Cornell University, White Art Museum; Ohio, Kent State University; Atlanta Public Library and New York, Aurora, Wells College, School of New York: Some Younger Artists, December 1959-March 1962.
Milan, Galleria dell’Ariete, Quattro americani, June 1964, no. 2 (titled Target).
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Jasper Johns: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 1954-1964, December 1964, no. 12 (illustrated; dated 1957).
Pasadena Art Museum, Jasper Johns, January-February 1965.
Milwaukee Art Center, Pop Art and the American Tradition, April-May 1965, p. 8 (illustrated, no. 38).
Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum and Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kompas 3: Schilderkunst na 1945 uit New York, November 1967-February 1968, p. 36 (illustrated, no. 7).
Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, New-Dada e Pop Art Newyorkesi, April-May 1969, p. 36 (illustrated, pl. 12; dated 1957).
Rome, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Contemporanea, November 1973-February 1974, p. 224, no. 1 (illustrated incorrectly; dated 1960).
Baltimore Museum of Art, May 1981-September 1986 (extended loan).
Princeton University, The Art Museum; Akron Art Museum; The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collection: Works from the 1950s and 1960s, February 1985-June 1986, pp. 50 and 110, no. 21 (illustrated, p. 55).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985, November 1986-June 1987, p. 345 (illustrated in color).
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Leo Castelli y sus artistas, June-October 1987, no. 91 (illustrated).
Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain; Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie; Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna; Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere; Geneva, Musée Rath; Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Modern Art; Sendai, Miyagi Museum of Art; Fukuyama Museum of Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Colección Sonnabend, October 1987-February 1991, p. 85 (illustrated in color).
Lyon, Musée Saint-Pierre art contemporain, La couleur seule: l'expérience du monochrome, October-December 1988, no. 28 (illustrated, p. 133; illustrated again in color in situ at the exhibition).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pop Art, September-December 1991, p. 73, no. 121 (illustrated in color, pl. 15).
Turin, Portici del Lingotto, Arte Americana, 1930-1970, January-March 1992, p. 176 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62, December 1992-October 1993, p. 124 (illustrated in color).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, May-September 1994.
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Sammlung Sonnabend: Von der Pop-art bis heute; Amerikanische und europäische Kunst seit 1954, February-September 1996, p. 63 (illustrated in color; titled Grey Target).
Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Pintura estadounidense expresionismo abstracto, October 1996-January 1997, p. 392, no. 39 (illustrated in color, p. 393).
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century, May-July 1997, no. 254 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, January-April 2007, p. 67, no. 10 (illustrated in color, pp. 67 and 161).
The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: Gray, November 2007-May 2008, pp. 95, 131, 136 and 157 (illustrated in color, p. 92, no. 41).
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