Jasper Johns, Target, from Technics and Creativity, Gemini G.E.L., 1971 (after)

1971

This exquisite offset lithograph after Jasper Johns (born 1930), titled Untitled, originates from the publication Art in America, May 2014. Published by Art in America, LLC, New York, and Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, New York; sponsored by Christies Inc., New York; and printed by Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Bay Shore, at Official Offset Corporation, Amityville, 2013, this work reflects Johns ongoing investigation into symbol, perception, and repetition. In Untitled, Johns extends his celebrated exploration of marks, motifs, and coded visual language through a composition that merges conceptual clarity with painterly nuance, embodying the subtle rigor that defines his mature graphic work. Executed as an offset lithograph on velin Giama Natural paper, this work measures 15.125 x 10.875 inches (38.42 x 27.62 cm), with centerfold as issued. Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Printed by Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Bay Shore, at Official Offset Corporation, Amityville, one of the most respected collaborative printmaking ateliers in the United States. Artwork Details: Artist: After Jasper Johns (born 1930) Title: Untitled, from Art in America, May 2014 Medium: Offset lithograph on velin Giama Natural paper Dimensions: 15.125 x 10.875 inches (38.42 x 27.62 cm), with centerfold as issued Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 2013 Publisher: Art in America, LLC, New York; Sharon Coplan Hurowitz, New York Sponsor: Christies Inc., New York Printer: Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Bay Shore, at Official Offset Corporation, Amityville Catalogue raisonne reference: Carlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021, No. 27; The Prints of Jasper Johns: A Catalogue Raisonne, ULAE, New York (forthcoming), No. 324. Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the May 2014 publication Art in America, published by Art in America, LLC, New York About the Publication: This special Art in America project was conceived as a contemporary homage to Jasper Johns’ long and distinguished history of printmaking innovation. Commissioned in collaboration with Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and sponsored by Christies Inc., the project brought together Art in America and Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) to create an original print that would bridge the worlds of fine art publishing, contemporary criticism, and Johns experimental graphic language. Printed at the renowned ULAE in Bay Shore and completed at Official Offset Corporation, the work reaffirms ULAEs foundational role in the evolution of Johns printmaking practice, which began at the atelier in 1960. For this publication, Johns developed a composition that synthesizes decades of explorations into mark-making, coded systems, repetition, and perceptual inquiry, extending the intellectual rigor and visual subtlety that have defined his contribution to American art since the 1950s. Distributed within the May 2014 issue, the project functioned as both a democratic expansion of Johns audience and a continuation of his long-standing interest in the intersection between mass media, printmaking processes, and the shifting boundaries between high art and printed dissemination. Today, this project is recognized as one of the most significant print-related collaborations between a major art periodical and an American master, embodying Johns lifelong dialogue between image, idea, and the materiality of print. About the Artist: Jasper Johns (born 1930) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and transformative American artists of the postwar era, a painter and printmaker whose groundbreaking fusion of abstraction, symbolism, and conceptual inquiry placed him in direct dialogue with towering modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray while establishing a new visual and intellectual foundation for contemporary art; emerging in the mid 1950s with his revolutionary paintings of flags, targets, numbers, alphabets, and other everyday symbols, Johns rejected the emotional volatility of Abstract Expressionism and instead introduced a cool, analytical approach grounded in the semiotic play between object and image, employing encaustic, collage, graphite, and sculptural relief to create layered works that examine how meaning is constructed and perceived; his dialogues with Duchamps conceptualism, Picassos structural inventiveness, Miro and Kandinskys color logic, Giacomettis existential figuration, and Man Rays experimental attitude helped shape a singular aesthetic that directly influenced and helped catalyze Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, inspiring contemporaries and successors including Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Glenn Ligon, Christopher Wool, Mark Bradford, Mark Grotjahn, and Wade Guyton; celebrated for more than seven decades, Johns work is held in the worlds most prestigious museums—including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, and the Moderna Museet—and he is recognized as one of the most intellectually rigorous and technically inventive artists of the 20th and 21st centuries; his market remains exceptionally strong, with his highest auction record achieved on November 11, 2014, when Flag (1983) sold for 36000000 USD at Sothebys New York. 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