Lot #881: JASPER JOHNS - Coathanger - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Jasper Johns (American, b.1930).
Title: "Coathanger".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1962.
Dimensions: Overall size: 31 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (797 x 524 mm). Image size: 20 1/2 x 17 in. (521 x 432 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower left; signed and numbered in the plate. Edition size unspecified, presumed very small. Cream wove paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Good to very good condition. The poster was used as a mailer (see image of verso) hence the usual folds. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Field 2. Comment(s): An extremely rare poster. Only one auction record in the past 25 years located (an unsigned impression, sold for $2,233 at Butterfields, S.F., 5/19/2002, lot #278). Because the poster was used as a mailer it is highly ephemeral, undoubtedly very few surviving. Our example was mailed by the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City for Ileana Sonnabend. For the exhibition at Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, November- December, 1962. Image copyright © Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. [27491-5-1600]