False Start I

1962

Jasper Johns

Artist, American, born 1930

Robert Blackburn

Printer, American, 1920 - 2003

Universal Limited Art Editions

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    11-color lithograph (stone) on Rives BFK paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
    sheet: 76.2 x 56.8 cm (30 x 22 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1976.56.57

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    ULAE, no. 009

  • Copyright

    Published by Universal Limited Art Editions © Jasper Johns and U.L.A.E./Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Woodward Foundation, Washington, D.C.; acquired 1976 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1981

  • Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, unnumbered brochure.

2007

  • Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Kunstmuseum Basel, 2007, no. 32.

2022

  • The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2022, no. 65.

Bibliography

1970

  • Field, Richard S. Jasper Johns: Prints 1960-1970. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, no.

1994

  • Field, Richard S. The Prints of Jasper Johns, 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonné. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, 1994, no. 9.

Inscriptions

in graphite below image, lower left: 19/38 I, in red colored pencil, lower right: J. Johns '62

Markings

blind stamp: ULAE

Wikidata ID

Q65571600

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