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Identification and Creation

Object Number
32.1999
People
Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)
Published by Simca Print Artists
Title
Cicada
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Marginalia ( in honor of Kusuo Shimizo)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1979
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193344

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silkscreen from sixteen screens in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, buff, and white on Kurotani Hosho paper
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 56.52 x 46.36 cm (22 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, lower right, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: J Johns '79
  • inscription: recto, lower left, graphite, signed: proof for Toiny

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-Christophe Castelli, New York.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
Artists Proof
Standard Reference Number
ULAE 204, JG 18

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Collection Jean-Christophe Castelli, Class of 1985
Copyright
© Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Number
32.1999
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
with masterprinters Kenjiro Nonaka, Hiroshi Kwanishi, and Takeshi Shimada at Simca Print Artists, New York

Publication History

  • Jennifer Roberts and Jennifer Quick, Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2012), p. 67, fig. 10

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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