Lot #603: JASPER JOHNS - Technics and Creativity II - Target 1970 - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Jasper Johns (American, b.1930).
Title: "Technics and Creativity II - Target 1970".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1970.
Dimensions: Image size: 10 5/8 x 8 in. (270 x 203 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/1,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower left; signed in the plate, lower left. Edition of 22,500, of which few have survived intact (brush present, with hairs, w.c. pads unused). White wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. The print is in fine condition. Very light soil to plastic case. Scarce thus. Provenance: Private collection, Los Altos, California.
Comment(s): An unsigned impression sold for €616 ($973) on 03-30-2008 at PIASA in Paris. Another unsigned impression was offered at auction with a pre-sale estimate of $4,000/5,000 (starting bid $2,000) at RoGallery, August 11, 2010, lot 259. Plastic case containing a catalogue with 364 illustrations (20 in color) and a specially commissioned multiple by Johns (a two-color offset lithograph), along with watercolor pads and a brush. The pads are intact and, along with the brush, never used. Produced by Gemini in conjunction with "Technics and Creativity: Gemini G.E.L," an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Image copyright © Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. [19894-3-600-NA]