Johns jasper b 1930 (4 Ergebnisse)

Publisher's cloth (with two minute and insignificant smudges to front cover), pictorial dustjacket (very fine). New York, The Museum of Modern Art / MoMA, 2014. Large 8vo. 72 pages (some folding). Richly illustrated in black & white and colour. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15th March-1st September 2014. In June 2012, Jasper Johns encountered a photograph of the painter Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christie's auction catalogue. Inspired not only by the photographic image, but also by the physical qualities of the object itself, Johns then created 16 paintings, drawings and prints, each laying bare the cycle of dead ends and fresh starts. - - - (Publisher:) "This catalogue documents Jasper Johns's most recent body of work, a cohesive group of two paintings, ten drawings, and two prints created over the last year and a half. In June 2012, Johns encountered an old photograph of the artist Lucian Freud reproduced in an auction catalogue. In the picture, Freud sits on a bed, holding his right hand to his forehead in a gesture of weariness or despair. Johns was inspired not only by this scene but also by the damaged appearance of the photograph itself. In the months that followed, he carried the image through a succession of permutations using a variety of mediums and techniques. The title and signature inscribed on most of the works - 'Regrets / Jasper Johns' - call to mind a feeling of sadness or disappointment. The words, however, are not without irony: Johns borrowed them from a rubber stamp he had made several years ago to decline the myriad requests and invitations that come his way. Seen as a whole, the series reveals the importance of experimentation in Johns's art, laying bare the cycle of dead ends and fresh starts, the way problems and solutions develop from one work to another, and the incessant interplay of materials, meaning, and representation so characteristic of his work over the last sixty years. 72 pages, with 72 color and black-and-white reproductions".…

Publisher's cloth, pictorial dustjacket (spine lightly faded), fine. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1996. 30,5 x 23 cms. 408 pp. Richly illustrated, partly in colour. Chronology, bibliography and index. Published for an exhibition at the The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 20, 1996-January 21, 1997. …

Sewn as issued, pictorial wrapppers in colour. Very fine / as new. Provenance: Jeanette Bonnier (1934-2016). Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, 1979. 8vo. 344 pp. Richly illustrated, partly in colour. The interview with Jasper Johns given in both German and English. Substantial catalogue for an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel (7 April-2 June 1979), Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (19 June-5 August 1979), Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main (13 September-11 November 1979), Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel (25 November 1979-6 January 1980), and Den kongelige Kobberstiksamling Statens Museum for Kunst København (19 January-16 March 1980).…

Sewn as issued, pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Provenance: Jeanette Bonnier (1934-2016). New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1977. 4to. 248 pp. Richly illustrated, partly in colour. With a printed additional leaf giving additions and corrections as well as a Revised Exhibition Schedule.