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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.111
People
Jasper Johns, American (Augusta, GA 1930 -)
Title
Corpse and Mirror
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1976
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/338323

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lithograph from twelve aluminum plates on German etching, black wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sight: 77.8 x 100.4 cm (30 5/8 x 39 1/2 in.)
framed: 90.5 x 112.2 x 5.1 cm (35 5/8 x 44 3/16 x 2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. J Johns '76
  • inscription: l.l., numbered 12/58
  • (not assigned): embossed stamp, l.l.: LAE
  • inscription: l.r. J Johns '76

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2011.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
ULAE 168

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Jasper Johns / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.111
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
with masterprinters Bill Goldston, James V. Smith at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Long Island, 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. 65, fig. 9
  • Jennifer Roberts, Contact: The Art and Pull of Print, Princeton University Press (Princeton and Oxford, 2024), p. 44, fig. 2.3, ill.

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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