Showing posts with label flag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flag. Show all posts

Monday, July 04, 2011

Happy Fourth of July

Jasper Johns
Flag
42 1/4" x 60 5/8" Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood
1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954)
Gift of Philip Johnson in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
© 2011 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

"In its stilled lucidity lurk half-readable stories: the small-fry stuff of yesterday's papers, or important events? Do they add up to some secret meaning? There is the sense of many lives, many narratives hidden beneath the common identity of Americans. This painting, this artwork, is like a great American novel. It captures in its monumental ghostly depths the intricate truths every simple facade conceals. Who are Americans? What are they like? The truth lies deeper than the stars and stripes."
- Jonathan Jones (The Guardian)

More at:
The truth beneath Jasper Johns' stars and stripes

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Jasper Johns' $28.6 Million Flag


Jasper Johns
Flag
encaustic and printed paper collage on paper laid down on canvas
17½ x 26¾ in. (44.5 x 67.9 cm.)
Painted in 1960-1966

Christie's announced that Jasper Johns' painting of an American flag from the collection of writer Michael Crichton sold last night in New York for a record $28,642,500.


Jasper Johns
Flag
encaustic and printed paper collage on paper laid down on canvas
17½ x 26¾ in. (44.5 x 67.9 cm.)
Painted in 1960-1966
(detail)



Jasper Johns
Flag
encaustic and printed paper collage on paper laid down on canvas
17½ x 26¾ in. (44.5 x 67.9 cm.)
Painted in 1960-1966
(detail)


Complete Lot Details at:
Christie's Sale Information
Sale 2406
Works from the Collection of Michael Crichton
11 - 12 May 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza