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JASPER JOHNS
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JASPER JOHNS

Ale Cans (ULAE 20)

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JASPER JOHNS
Ale Cans (ULAE 20)
lithograph in colors, 1964, on Japan, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 12/31 (there were also 2 artist's proofs), with the ULAE blindstamp, West Islip, New York, with full margins, in excellent condition, framed
L. 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (359 x 282 mm.) S. 22¾ x 17 5/8 in. (578 x 447 mm.)
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Ale Cans is the only print completed by Johns in 1964 and is among the most celebrated of his works in the print medium. Relying on an earlier work, Johns presents the viewer with a visual quote of his painted bronze sculpture Ale Cans of 1960. Ale Cans fits historically into the tradition of the still life in western painting. The raising of mundane objects to the status of sculpture can clearly be compared to the ready mades of Marcel Duchamp which elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. Here, as in all of Johns' double images, the eye first reads two indentical objects which, on closer examination, reveal themselves as different.