Target with Four Faces [trial proof]

1979

Jasper Johns

Artist, American, born 1930

Petersburg Press

Publisher

Aldo Crommelynck

Printer, French, 1931 - 2008

Jasper Johns

Concentric charcoal-gray and muted jasmine-yellow rings forming a target alternate against a raspberry-red background in this vertical etching. The innermost circle is gray and is followed by two yellow and two more charcoal rings. The rings and background covered with hatch marks. A row of four burnt-orange blocks, each with the word "FACE" printed backward and in darker orange, lines the target along the top edge. The trim around the blocks and across the top quarter of the etching is painted ash brown and then lined with a lighter tan to suggest wood grain. A slat across the top of the composition is separated from the words below by a thin black line and two brown sections that suggest hinges. The printed image is surrounded by a wide white margin. Pencil inscriptions under the printed image reads “Trial Proof” to the left and "J J '79" to the right.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching with aquatint, spit bite, sugar lift, and drypoint on wove paper [trial proof]

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund and Special Friends of the National Gallery of Art

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 75.4 × 56.1 cm (29 11/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
    plate: 59.5 × 45.9 cm (23 7/16 × 18 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.136.395

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    ULAE, no. 203 [trial proof]


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Sharon, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 203.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: TRIAL PROOF; lower right, in graphite: JJ '79

Wikidata ID

Q76439918


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