Sale 2886
New York
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23 - 24 October 2014
PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE CORPORATION
Price realised
USD 8,125
Estimate
JASPER JOHNS (b. 1930) Bent Stencil, from Fragment - According to What llithograph in colors, 1971, on Arches paper, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 5/79 (there were also 12 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps, the full sheet, light-staining, otherwise generally in good condition; together with: Alphabet, lithograph, 1969, both framed Sheet: 27½ x 20 in. (698 x 508 mm.) Each Sheet: 27½ x 20 in. (698 x 508 mm.) (2)
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