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Bernstein, Roberta. (Editor)
Jasper Johns. [Signed by Jasper Johns]
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London;
Date of Publication: 2017
Stock Code: 14432
Square quarto, pp., 262. Fully illustrated in colour with reproductions of his sketches, paintings and sculptures throughout. Navy blue cloth cover with title blind embossed to upper board, with on-laid artwork reproduction to upper board. Artist and contributor biographies on-laid to lower board. With the exhibition gallery guide and Royal Academy of Arts opening night invitation loosely inserted. Housed in the original publisher’s plain cardboard mailing box. A near fine copy, signed by the artist to the first blank. Published to accompany the exhibition “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth”, the first comprehensive survey of his work to be held in the UK in 40 years. A key figure of post-war art, American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker Johns (born 1930) is known for his work in Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Dada movements. His iconic images of flags, targets and numbers have occupied a central position in American creative imagination since his first solo exhibition in New York in 1958. £75.00