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JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
Cicada
stenciled with the artist's name, title and date 'OHNS 1979 CICADA JASPER JO' (lower edge)
oil on canvas
30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm.)
Painted in 1979
Provenance
Mark Lancaster, New York (acquired from the artist, 1979).
PaceWildenstein, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1999.
Literature
R. Francis, "Disclosures," Art in America, vol. 72, no. 8, September 1984, p. 198.
R. Mariner, "Jasper Johns," Art Monthly, no. 132, London, December 1989-January 1990, pp. 20-21.
G. Boudaille, Jasper Johns New York, 1989, p. 22.
Jasper Johns: Printed Symbols, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1990-1991, pp. 51-61.
R. Bernstein, Jasper Johns New York, 1992 (illustrated, pl. 4).
B. Rouge, "Splitting Cicadas, ou le repli des masques: Jasper Johns et la serie", Suites et series: actes du troisieme Colloque du Cicada, 3, 4, 5 decembre 1992, Paris, 1994, pp. 155-171.
F. Orton, Figuring Jasper Johns London, 1994, pp. 164-169, 172 and 182.
J. Yau, The United States of Jasper Johns New York, 1996, pp. 69-70.
R. Bernstein, Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, Volume 3, Painting, 1971-2014, New Haven and London, 2016, pp. 56-57, no. P204 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Twenty Galleries, Twenty Years, January-February 1982, p. 23 (illustrated).
New York, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, Recent Aspects of Allover, September-October 1982.
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery and Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Dancers on a Plane: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, October 1989-March 1990, pp. 124 and 140, no. 2 (illustrated in color).
Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Jasper Johns From a Private Collection, 1961-1983, June-July 1990.
Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, November 1994-January 1995, p. 42, no. 35 (illustrated in color).
Miami Art Museum, Dream Collection: Gifts and Just a Few Hidden Desires...Part Two, September 1997-April 1998.
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