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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2023 | Ventriloquist | 4 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
Prints & Multiples
105.4 x 71.1 cm (41.5 x 28 in)
lithograph printed in colors on J. Green paper
signed in pencil and dated "85 (lower right); inscribed For Emily (lower center); numbered 4/67 (lower left) blindstamp of the publisher, ULAE
Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip
Acquired from the above in June 1985 by the present owner
Saint Paul, Fondation Maeght, Jasper Johns: L"Ouvre Graphique du 1969 à 1985 , 17 May - 30 June, 1986
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Madrid, Centro Reina Sofia; Vienna, Weiner Secession; Fort Worth Art Museum; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective , May 1986 - December 1987, 20 May 1986 - 6 December 1987
Richard S. Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns: 1960-1993, A Catalogue Raisonné , Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, 1994, no. 233 illustrated (another example illustrated)
Judith Goldman, Jasper Johns: L"Ouvre Graphique du 1969 à 1985 , Saint-Paul 1986, p. 38, no. 95, p. 52 illustrated (another example illustrated)
Tom Armstrong et al., The Whitney Museum of American Art , New York 1986, vol. 7, p. 43 (another example)
Riva Castleman, Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective , Museum of Modern Art, New York 1986, pp. 22, 45, 47, 132, illustrated in color, p. 143 (another example illustrated)
Riva Castleman, Retrospektive der Druckgraphik , Frankfurt 1986, p. 130 illustrated in color, p. 137 (another example illustrated)
Riva Castleman, Obra Grafica 1960 - 1985 , Madrid 1987, p. 122 illustrated in color, p. 135 (another example illustrated)
Leo Castelli, Leo Castelli"s Artist , Toyko 1990, no. 9, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Jasper Johns
b. 1930
Ventriloquist
signed in pencil and dated "85 (lower right); inscribed For Emily (lower center); numbered 4/67 (lower left)
lithograph printed in colors on J. Green paper
image: 33 by 22⅛ in. (83.9 by 56.2 cm.)
sheet: 41½ by 28 in. (1055 by 71.2 cm.)
Executed in 1985; this impression is number 4 from the edition of 67 plus ten artist"s proofs, with the blindstamp of the publisher, ULAE.
