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Four panels from Untitled 1972

Print
1972 (made)
Artist/Maker
Jasper Johns (artist)
Place of origin
Los Angeles (made)

Lithographic print on paper


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleFour panels from Untitled 1972 (series title)
Materials and techniques
printer's ink, paper, lithography
Printer's Ink
Paper
Lithography
Brief description
Fourth panel from 'Four panels from Untitled 1972'; lithograph by Jasper Johns
Physical description
Lithographic print on paper
Dimensions
  • Height: 1025mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Registers: 1976-1977)
  • Width: 720mm (Note: Taken from Departmental Circulation Registers: 1976-1977)
Marks and inscriptions
  • JJ (Signed in pencil)
  • 26/45 D/d (Marked in pencil)
Credit line
The Waddington Gallery
Production
The four panels are arranged in order, and are identified as
A/d, B/d, C/d and D/d. The imagery used is derived from
Johns’ painting ‘Untitled 1972’ (collection Museum Ludwig,
Cologne), and is composed, reading from left to right, of
overall groups of lines in green, orange and blue on shades
of white/grey, two panels of stone-shapes in white, red and
black, and a final panel of body-parts on timber struts.
Panel A/d - 14 colours, panel B/d - 10 colours, panel C/d - 11 colours,
panel D/d – 14 colours. Each panel is embossed with the pattern
of the previous panel in the sequence (A/d having D/d’s pattern),
which was done with photo-engraved zinc plates from stencils
hand-cut by the artist. (Among other works by Johns since 1972
using this imagery are the etchings in “Fizzles/
Foirades”: a copy of the book is in the Library).
The prints were made at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles,
1974, the artist having worked on the project 1973-4. They are
in Laurence Barker Grey hand-made paper.
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Registers: 1976-1977
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.368-1976

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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